LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., F.R.G.S., Deputy-Master of Trinity House
WE deeply regret to have to record the death, during March, of two old and very valued friends of the Institution, Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., J.P., F.R.G.S., Deputy-] Master of the Trinity House, and...
Category: Obituaries
A Brave Swimmer. Award of Bronze Medal
Ix the early afternoon of 27th August last a small steamer. Kendy, of Cardiff, got into difficulties off Porthcawl in Glamorganshire, and foundered. The Crew took to the boat, but it capsized, and, with the men clinging to it, drifted...
Category: Medals
The Value of a Life
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, but in The Lifeboat for March, 1929, we published a calculation made by an Assurance Company which showed the minimum value, that is to say, the cost of providing the dependents of a man...
Category: Articles
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
An Irish Air Force Seaplane
Launches 37. Lives Rescued 12.
MARCH. 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A the message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M.
that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off...
An Irish Air Force Seaplane (1)
Launches 37. Lives Rescued 12.
MARCH. 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A the message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M.
that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off...
Life-Boat Tractors for the Antarctic
IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.
There are now eleven on the coast.
The type...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...
Category: Articles