LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flying doctor
Medical student and RNLI Crew Member Stuart Braithwaite took to the Alaska skies with the US Coast Guard last year – training and undertaking medical research
Stuart (31) is Second Mechanic at...
Category: Articles
Captain C. J. P. Cave
BY the death of Captain Charles John Philip Cave, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.R.P.S., J.P., of Petersfield, on Decem- ber 8th, 1950, in his eightieth year, the Committee of Management have lost their oldest member. Captain Cave was elected to...
Category: Obituaries
Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
Category: Articles
Lives Lost, 1853
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...
Category: Articles
Bispham
ABERSOCH.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 23rd January the Life - boat Oldham waslaunched, signal - rockets having been fired from the direction of St. TudwelFs Island. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from E.N.E., with snow squalls and very cold...
Launches
Aberdeen ON-1248 (17-24): Apr12.Api23, MaylS May31 0-536: Apr12. Apr14. Apr23, Apr24.
Mayl 3 Abetdovey B-758: Mar3D. Mar31. May6(x2), MaylS. May25 Abersoch B-582: MayS. MayS. May16 Abarystwyth B-704: Mar27. Apr21. Mayl....
Category: Services
Members' Page
RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...
Category: Meetings
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 NEW COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MEMBERS 5 LADIES' LIFE-BOAT GUILD 5 R.N.L.I. DELEGATION IN UNITED STATES 6 NEW U.S. STEEL LIFE-BOAT 9 LETTER TO THE EDITOR II AN...
Category: Contents
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 21st April the No. 1 Life-boat Augusta was launched at 11.45 A.M., some of the fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.S.E., a heavy sea breaking on the bar ; the weather was very thick and rain was falling at...
M.K.D.
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having reported a vessel ashore at Waxham on the 16th March, the No. 1 Lifeboat Good Hope was taken on her transporting carriage along the shore to the scene of the disaster. A strong gale was blowing from...