LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, Cheshire. After serving for ten months as second coxswain of the neighbouring station of Hilbre Island, Coxswain Jones became second coxswain at Hoylake in 1920. He served...

Sunderland, Durham. — About two o'clock early on the morning of the 5th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bruse, of Oslo, had broken down at the entrance to the harbour and was drifting dan- gerously near the South...

Padstow, Cornwall. — 23rd January, 1939. In the early morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary went out to the help of the mine-layer Medea.

The life-boat was buried by a sea which washed away nearly all the gear on...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.5 on the .

afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man on the St. Gowan lightvessel was ill and needed a doctor. A quarter of an hour later the Superintendent of...

Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).

Name.

Age.

School.

Elaine Bollard • Myf anwy Wilding .

Iris Speller .