LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stormcock, of Padstow
JULY 13TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 9.15 in the evening the Hartland Point coastguard reported a cabin cruiser apparently broken down, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched in a moderate north-westerly wind, with a...
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winterton
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winter- ton, Norfolk, who died on llth January last, at the age of sixty-five, joined the Life-boat Crew at Winterton, Norfolk, in 1884, when he was eighteen years old.
He was appointed Second...
Category: Obituaries
Druide, of Aberystwith
on 9th Oct., 1860, saved 5 men from the schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth..
Village Maid, of Fleetwood
on 10th Feb. saved 4 men from the schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood..
We Ask the Questions
What is involved in running a successful RNLI branch and how does it work? Lifeboat speaks to two branch officials from very different corners of the Institution - John Dennison, chairman of Uckfield and Heathfield branch in Sussex, and...
Category: Articles
Mary Rose, of Brixham
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.26 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a small yacht was waving a flag two miles south-west of Wyke look- out hut. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at...
Aida Lauro, of Naples
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
Frank, of Grimsby
WITHERNSEA.—On the 8th January, at 5 A.M., the smack Frank, of Grimsby, having on board a crew of 10 persons, was driven ashore off Waxholme, 2 miles north of Withernsea, during an E.S.E.
gale, accompanied by a heavy sea....
The Rescue Team
1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN YVES SYLVESTRE HERVE, of the Criccieth life-boat Robert Lindsay. Born in Brittany, Coxswain Herve, who served in the French merchant navy from 1935 to 1941 and then in the Free French commandos, joined the Criccieth life-boat in...
Category: Articles