LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...

SHORELINE HAS NOW COMPLETED one of the most exciting periods in its history, for late last summer the first lifeboat to be funded by Shoreline members made her delivery trip to her station, Blyth, on the north-east coast of England, and on...

THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....

The launch was one of their toughest – what would the lifeboat volunteers find when they reached the casualty, dragging in the water?

It was a bright and breezy morning on
4 September 2009 when a man and...

IT has been repeatedly suggested that we, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION might publish a list of those officers of has been awarded. We accordingly the Royal Navy and Marines now living to place the same before our readers. It...

SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank...

CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At about 11.30 in the morning of the 26th March, 1941, a Wellington bomber crashed into the sea, between Criccieth Castle and Harlech. The weather was foggy, with a heavy swell. Two rowing boats, each manned by...

October 20th, at 5 P.M.

The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.

Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...