LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of Sennen Cove Life-Boat Station
THE centenary of the life-boat station at Sennen Cove, which was estab- lished in 1853, was celebrated by a dinner held at the Land's End Hotel on the 21st of April 1953. A certifi- cate inscribed on vellum was presented by Earl Howe,...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts and Swimming
WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...
Category: Articles
Ray Oliver: Bowman and Centre-Forward
Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Branch THE crew of the Cullercoats life-boat and the people of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay are justly proud of their bowman, Ray Oliver. Not only is Ray a first-class officer in the boat, but...
Category: Articles
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
Category: Services
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
Category: Articles
Llfeboat Services
South Eastern Division Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower...
Category: Services
Scene from Above
The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.
Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...
Category: Articles
New Assistant Secretary Appointed
MR. J. R. ATTERTON, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution.
Mr. Atterton, who is aged 44, first joined the Institution's staff in 1936 and worked in the Chief Inspector's depart- ment, and...
Category: Committee
The S.S. Baxtergate
Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st of July, 1959, a firm of shipping agents informed the coxs- wain that the father of a boy aboard the s.s. Baxtergate of London was danger- ously ill. As there was no other suitable boat...
Letters
Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...
Category: Correspondence