LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COXSWAIN JOHN T. SWAN, of Lowes- toft, one of the most distinguished of English life-boatmen, died on 20th February, at the age of eighty-three.

He was coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat from 1911 to 1924, when he retired...

The international lifeboat exhibition, which as reported in the July issue of THE LIFEBOAT is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, will run from July 20 to August 31,1974, and not from July 14 to September 10 as...

Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...

A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...

DIAMETER Mill)- Inches 2 3 4 5 6 5/64 1/8 5/32 3/16 1/4 STANDING RIGGING RUNNING 1x19 7x7 I 6x19(PVCCORE) MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD 750 1,680 3,000 4,650 6,700 580 1,300 2,300 3,600 5,200.

In the five years since war was declared on 3rd. September, 1939, our lifeboats have put out to the help of ships and aeroplanes 3,385 times and have rescued 5,777 lives. That is an average of 22 lives every week. It is more lives rescued in...

The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF

Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....