LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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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 new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...

On May 29 Stornoway's new 48' 6" Solent lifeboat (left) was named Hugh William Viscount Gough in memory of the late Lord Cough, a regular fishing visitor to the island, by his widow, the Viscountess Gough. The lifeboat was... - View image in PDF

On the 26th Oc- tober, 1859, the schooner Majestic, of Dun- dee, ran for the harbour of Benvick-on- Tweed, it blowing a heavy gale at that time from the N.E. She succeeded in crossing the bar, but drove ashore on Spittal Point. The life-boat...

THE portrait on the cover is of ex-Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate, Kent. He served as second coxswain for over seven years, from 1898 to 1905, and then as coxswain for twenty years, retiring in 1925 at the age of seventy-two. During...

Also on that day, the brigantine Qirondin, of Bordeaux, stranded during a strong gale from the S., and in a heavy sea, on the Par Sands, on the Cornish coast. The South War- wickshire life-boat was launched, and suc- ceeded in rescuing the...