LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., was for many years Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution. He died at his home in Glasgow on 13th January, 1965, shortly after reaching his looth birthday. When the first experiments with motor...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A telegram reporting a vessel ashore in Port St.

Mary Bay was received early on the morning of the 7th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S., with a very heavy sea. The snow having...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Coverack (Cornwall) life-boat being launched on service and...

Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...

At noon on 26th August, 1966, the Air Commandant, Guernsey Airport, told the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed off Alderney and asked if the life-boat could be sent to investigate.

Three aqua-lung divers, who...

Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.

The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter... - View image in PDF

ALTHOUGH, considering its benevolent object, the small site of ground that is usually required to build a life-boat house on is not likely frequently to become the subject of litigation, yet the Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat...

Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...