LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Off Conway Castle
IN the Spring number there was a photograph of the Llandudno life-boat, off Conway Castle. This photograph was reproduced by very kind per- mission of the North Wales Weekly News, and we regret that no acknow- ledgment was made under the...
Category: Articles
Some Fishery Statistics
In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...
Category: Articles
The Minesweeper Cape Comorin
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY.
NOV. 12TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About three-thirty in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Whitby life-boat station that a vessel was ashore close under the cliffs...
July (1)
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE. About 7.30 in the morning of the 26th of April, 1943, a dinghy belonging to the R.A.F. Rescue Service (Maintenance and Repair) Unit, with seven men on board, capsized in deep water between 20 and 30 yards from the...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1899
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1899, the Eight Hon.
the Earl of DERBY, K.G-., G.C.B.,...
Category: Annual Reports
Book reviews
Survival skills, intrepid explorations and coastal cruises – get ready for an adventure this spring
The Cape Horner’s Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World’s Most Feared Cape by Adrian Flanagan
Category: Articles
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
Category: Advertisement
A German Aircraft
Whitby No 1, and Runswick, York- shire.—18th October, 1939. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby. A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the motor life-boat was launched. The...
A German Aircraft (1)
Whitby No 1, and Runswick, York- shire.—18th October, 1939. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby. A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the motor life-boat was launched. The...
An Aeroplane (26)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...