LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 97 APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officerof the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
Category: Services
News and Views
SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Amiral Aube (1)
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.
—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...
Three Generations of the Cannon Family Aboard the Ramsgate Lifeboat
Three generations of the Cannon family aboard the Ramsgate lifeboat. The youngest, Ian (right) joined the crew on his 17th birthday, while father Roy (centre) has been coxswain for 18 years, and grandfather Bob (left) was previously the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aircraft
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 12.25 on the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near North Briggs buoy. The life-boat Sarah Ward and William David...
The Crew
Awards for saving drowning man...
Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...
Category: Articles
An International Life-Boat Organization
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.IT will be remembered that at the Inter- Comnational Life-boat Conference, held in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in which representatives of nine nations took part, a resolution was...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Services
An Aircraft
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—22nd September, 1938. The police reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea.
The life-boat found an oil patch and dragged with grappling irons for a sunken aeroplane, but could find...