LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
William John Arthur,
OCTOBER 1997 William John Arthur, former Falmouth mechanic. Mr Arthur's RNLI service spanned over 43 years - 20 years as a crew member on the Cadgwith rowing and sailing lifeboat, 12 years as mechanic at Cadgwith (at the outbreak of WW2)...
Category: Obituaries
Edna
Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the direc- tion of Picklecombe and stated that a naval M.F.V. had put out. At 1.55 the Queen's...
Philorth
The steam trawler Philorth, of Dundee, left Dundee Harbour at 1.30 A.M. on the 18th March, bound for the fishing grounds, and at 3.45 she was seen from Arbroath Harbour to run on to the rocks about one mile to the eastward, and make signals...
Logwatch
Logwatch, a new electronic navigational instrument made by the marine equipment division of R. P. Jeffers and Company, has recently been evaluated by the RNLI design department. It is an electronic digital log with an integral chronometer...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1927
Presentation of Prizes in the London District.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th April, the Mayor of Westminster (Mr. Jacques Abady) presided at the presentation of the prizes won in the Life-boat Essay...
Category: Articles
Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies
TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
Category: Articles
Teasel (2)
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
Veloce
Nov. 16TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At A.M. the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that a steamer had stranded near Dungeness Point. A moderate W. to S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
At 5.30 A.M. the motor...
Articles Held Over
ALTHOUGH this is an enlarged number it has unfortunately again been neces- sary to hold over, owing to lack of space, the article on the new fast type of Motor Life-boat stationed at Dover ; the article on Grace Darling's coble at the...
Category: Articles
Lark
In a strong E.S.E. gale, thick weather, and very choppy sea, on the 13th'December, the steam trawler Lark, belonging to Hull, and bound for that port with a load of fish, stranded on the rocks about five miles north of Flamborough Head...