LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Hugh Nelson
HUGH NELSON, coxswain of the Dona- ghadee life-boat, died on the 21st of November, 1954, at the age of 63. He had served as coxswain of the Dona- ghadee life-boat since July, 1949, having previously been second cox- swain for twenty...
Category: Obituaries
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 NEW COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MEMBERS 5 LADIES' LIFE-BOAT GUILD 5 R.N.L.I. DELEGATION IN UNITED STATES 6 NEW U.S. STEEL LIFE-BOAT 9 LETTER TO THE EDITOR II AN...
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Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1890
Jan. 4.—Two men put off in a coastguard boat and rescued the crew of three men of the barge Dewdrop, of Portsmouth, which had foundered in Langston Harbour, Hampshire, in a moderate gale from the S. W. and a rough sea—Reward....
Category: Articles
Charity from the Workless
THE sum of £250,000 which the Institution needs each year to maintain the life-boat service works out at five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles. In a number of its appeals the Institution has been asking for this...
Category: Donations
Christmas Cards Can Be Ordered Now
The Institution will have three Christmas cards for sale this year. One will have a reproduction of Tintoretto's painting Christ on the Sea of Galilee'., one will have a reproduction of a specially commissioned painting by David Cobb...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Oars
LIFE-BOAT OARS.
As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...
Category: Articles
Awards for Bravest Deeds of 1953
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act, of life-saving in 1953 has been won by Coxswain HughNelson,ofDonagha- dee, County Down. The award has been made for the service to the Princess Victoria on the 31st of Jan- uary, 1953, when the...
Category: Awards
Dirkje
INTERPRETER CAME At 10.45 a.m. on iyth June, 1964, the secretary of the Berwick Infirmary told the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had asked if a boat could land the skipper as she could not enter the harbour on the ebb tide. As no...
Commentary
In place of the usual Notes of the Quarter there appears in this number an appeal by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I.
In other parts of this number there appear as usual accounts of services by the crews of life-boats and IRBs....
Category: Articles