LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.

This fund was established in 1955...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...

ADMIRAL, FitzRoy, the skilful sailor, the travelled naturalist, the earnest Christian, and the best friend of the population which fringes our sea-girt isle, and the zealous coadjutor of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has gone to his...

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On the morning of the 7th June, daring foggy weather, an intimation was received that a steamer had stranded on the eastern side of Carmel Point. The Cemlyu Lifeboat B. J. Nicholson was launched at 10 o'clock, and found that the vessel...

MASTER OF LIGHTVESSEL Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 5.30 p.m.

on 8th January, 1964, the Irish Lights Office informed the honorary secretary that the wife of the master of the Conningbeg lightvessel was ill. There were light airs...

The first of the 46-feet Gorleston type, stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The picture shows the wheel and the engine control board. The engine-room hatch is open.. - View image in PDF

THE Institution has received a gift of over £14 from the chief engineer of a steamer. In addition to his work as engineer, he acts as ship's barber.

For these services he charges nothing, but asks his clients to...