LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The King of Norway and a Life-Boat Crew
IT will be within the recollection of our readers, that in May 1913 we had the pleasure of announcing that His Majesty the King of Norway had graciously given a monetary reward to be divided among the crew of the Skegness Lifeboat, for their...
Category: Awards
The Motor Fishing Vessels Angus Rose and Rose Mary
Montrose, Angus. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1960, conditions at the harbour entrance were very bad. A strong easterly wind was blowing, and the sea was very rough.
It was clear that the motor...
Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
District Conferences In the North of England and London
CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
Category: Meetings
A Life-Boat Rescue: As the Rescued See It
ON page 379 appears the account of the rescue, on 7th September, by the motor life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, of a dinghy, with a man and woman on board her, which was being carried out to sea. Here is a description of the same service—as...
Category: Services
The Late Coxswain John Crocombe, of Lynmouth
Second Coxswain from 1882-1886, and Coxswain from 1886-1926.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mayor of Southend Congratulates Coxswain Page
(see page 187). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In London for the Annual Meeting
Coxswain Mark Bates. In front: Mr. John Crook (see page 72). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs