LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(The figures refer to the numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 120. Dartmouth, the Karl of, and Hooper, Miss, 265. [142 Peach, Misses Frances and A Friend, 240. his Tenantry, 159. lope, Rev ...

THERE are few sailors in the habit of trading to the river who will not be acquainted with the Swan, a dandy-rigged cutter, that serves as the Thames Floating Church, and may generally be seen lying alongside one of the sections of colliers...

Southend-on-Sea’s hovercraft crew had a busy day on 23 May.

Their first job, with the local Coastguard team, was to search an area of low water for an unexploded mine. They found it, marked it with a buoy and informed a...

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Brave little Mablethorpe, Fair little Mablethorpe, Haven of rest for the young and the old; Where, in the summertime, Silver seas lazily Bipple o'er sands of a glittering gold.II.

England is proud...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain GEORGE PERRIN, of Skegness.

He joined the life-boat crew in 1913.

For three years during the war of 1914 to 1918, he served as mate on drifters engaged in...

MARCH 7TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

A British Anson aeroplane had crashed at sea, and a destroyer picked up one survivor, but nothing was found of the other three members of the crew.- Rewards, £6 14s....

THE severe storms which visited the British Isles during December last were marked by a number of splendid services, and in the case of the Fish- guard Life-boat by one of the finest anywhere on the coast in recent...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Hugh Nelson, of Donaghadee, Co. Down. He was appointed cox- swain in July, 1949, after serv- ing for twenty vears as second coxswain..