LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn." By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.

ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston....

By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.

ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston. A strong gale was blowing from the N.E....

Captain E. S. Carver, who died at Littlehampton on the 12th of December, 1959, at the age of 81, first joined the Institution's staff as Eastern District Inspector in 1919 after service in the first war, in which he had commanded a...

THE Hastings motor life-boat was one of the thirty-two life-boats which were launched during the exceptional gales at the end of May and the begin- ning of June, and was out for five hours hi the worst weather conditions she had ever...

A month later, on the night of 22nd December, the Gorleston Motor Life-boat was launched with a full blowing from the N.E. and a gale very got up very o'clock. The ketch Henrietta, of Goole, was lying in the Yarmouth Roads with two...

COXSWAIN JOHN T. SWAN, of Lowes- toft, one of the most distinguished of English life-boatmen, died on 20th February, at the age of eighty-three.

He was coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat from 1911 to 1924, when he retired...

A Response of over £750.

ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...

COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...