LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Henry Watson, J.P., of Anstruther
MB. HENRY WATSON, J.P., of Anstru- ther, Fifeshire, died on 12th August, less than a month after he had resigned, on account of ill-health, his position of Joint Honorary Secretary of the Station which he had held with his partner of the...
Category: Obituaries
Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...
Category: Articles
Miss Doris Calow
Miss Doris Calow, honorary secretary of Douglas ladies' guild from 1968 to 1988.
She was awarded a silver badge in 1981.
JUNE 1988:.
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain George Taylor, of Hauxley, Northumberland
George Taylor, who, since 1909, had been Coxswain of the Life-boat at Hauxley, Northumberland, was drowned while fishing on llth November of last year. During his Coxswainship the Hauxley Life-boat rescued 62 lives, and he was specially...
Category: Obituaries
Coastal Life
coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all...
Category: Articles
Trouble on the Trap
The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...
Category: Articles
Saving Life at Sea
To chronicle at the close of each succeed- ing year the notable events which have marked its course, is a very natural and in many ways a useful and profitable duty for statisticians to carry out; and the past year has been anything but un-...
Category: Articles
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence