LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
A Surgeon By Motor Life-Boat. Man's Life Saved In the Shetlands
Man's Life Saved in the Shetland*.
ABOUT 6.30 in the evening of 21st October, 1935, it was reported to the coast-watcher at Sandness, on the west of the Shetlands, that a light could be seen on the island of Papa...
Category: Services
A Sea Cadet Naval Whaler
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea off the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The message was...
A Naval Sea Otter Seaplane
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a naval Sea Otter seaplane had made a forced landing in Porthcothan Bay, and was attempting to taxi to Padstow. At 4.15 the No. 1 life-boat...
Campbeltown Life-Boat at Sea
Campbeltown Life-Boat at Sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.
It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...
Category: Advertisement
New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL, KENT • AND FETHARD, Co. WEXFORD.—The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these stations have recently been replaced by new boats— the North Deal boat being a large sail- ing boat of the self-righting type, named the Charles...
Category: Articles
A Rescue at Southend-On-Sea
The sinking lighter Elmsdale is on the right. The one man on board had taken to a small boat. It can be seen, nearly full of water, ahead of the life-boat. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy and San Toy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an out- board motor had broken down off Penmon Point. At three o'clock the life-boat Field...