LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wireless Telegraphy
THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...
Category: Articles
Flag Days: An Answer to the Critics
THE following was taken from the editorial column of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, for the 9th of July.
"The caustic criticisms which Corn- wall Police Authority have lately made about flag days may have...
Category: Articles
Frej (1)
Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...
To the Editor
SIR,—As there have been so many changes of late years in all that is connected with sailors and ships, the loss of life at sea is a subject well worth considering during what may be termed the experimental period. The loss is not so great...
Category: Correspondence
Le Fleme (1)
St. Helier, Jersey, and St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—12th July, 1938. Anxiety was felt for the French yacht Le Flerne, which had been missing since leaving Cherbourg five days earlier, but no trace could be found of her.—Rewards: St. Helier,...
An Aeroplane (9)
JUNE 27TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot.
The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.- Rewards, £5 2s. 6d. (For a full account, see “ Services by...
Canvassing Support
Mr Martin Harris, a well known artist whose works sell in London galleries for upwards of £1,000, is pictured with the painting that he generously donated to Sheerness lifeboat station at their last dance. The painting raised £575... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties one mile east of Tynemouth North Point. At 12.10 the life-boat...
Big Swim
The Basingstoke branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored swim in aid of the lifeboats and raised £1,169 - the largest single donation received by the RNLI Basingstoke branch.
Trophies were presented to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four of the Five Survivors of the Aldeburgh Crew of 1881
The photographs were taken by Mr. S. C. F. Gooding, Honorary Treasurer of the Aldeburgh Branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs