LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Captain Ernest Swan, R.N.V.R.
TILE Committee of Management heard with very great regret of the sudden death on April 6th of their colleague Captain Ernest William Swan, C.R.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R. Captain Swan Ix-came a member of the Committee in 1939, and brought to...
Category: Obituaries
Radio Fees Success
The RNLI will spend significantly less money on radio licensing fees, following Ofcom’s announcement on new pricing for the maritime sector.
Our lifeboat stations and lifeguards rely on maritime VHF radio channels to...
Category: Articles
Hidden Treasure
Our islands have a great heritage of constructing ocean-going vessels. But their shipbuilding glory days are fading – except where the RNLI is concerned
At the end of the 1800s, the UK was constructing over half of the...
Category: Articles
How to Act In Cases of Drowning
IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pernambuco
On the night of the 22ud January the s.s. Pernamluco, of Liverpool, with a cargo of coal from j Hartlepool to Portsmouth, struck heavily on the Spit Rock, Hartlepool, as she was proceeding to sea. She got off, but as she was found to be...
J. W. Sebell
CLACTON.—On the morning of the 10th March news was received that a man had landed about two miles east of Clacton at eight o'clock in an open boat which was nearly full of water. He had been taken to a farmhouse by some labouring people,...
Drofli
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning- of the 1 st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Gunfleet Sands to the east-south-east of the coastguard station. At 11.25 the life-boat...
Boats & Bits
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Category: Advertisement
An Aeroplane (16)
SEPT. 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT. At 9.29P.M. the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the Dungeness lifeboat...
Altmark
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 7.15 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore one mile north of Sker Point. At 7.55 the life-boat The William Gammon— Manchester and...