LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT will be remembered that some months ago there occurred a lamentable boat accident in the River Thames, when no less than ten promising youths, cadets on board a training-ship, were drowned. The boat was under sail at the time, and was...

PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....

IN the article in the last number on Mrs. Edith Manby's scarf-helmets for life-boatmen it was stated that over half a hundredweight of wool was used.

This should have been over a quarter of a ton..

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Oh the 26th November, 1938, the motor life-boat rescued the crews, six in number, of the three barges T.F.C., Gknmore and Lord Roberts.—-Rewards: Bronze second service clasp, vellums, and money awards amounting to...

THE great increase in the number of services since the outbreak of war would make it necessary nearly to double the size of The Life-boat if each quarterly number were to contain accounts of all life-boat services for three...

SINCE the last issue of The Life-boat secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch, Mr. Keppel H. Foote, late district inspector of life-boats, Captain Thomas Pengilly, late coxswain at Clovelly, and ex-Coxswain William Miller, of Eyemouth....

Valentia, Co. Kerry - On 20th February, 1970, the life-boat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings to go to the help of the M.V. Oranmore.

A full account of this service will appear in the next number of THE...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was in distress about three miles 8. of Mang- hold Head, during a S.E. wind on the 5th Oct. 1886, the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched at about 8.30 A.M., and was towed...