LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April (1)
ANNAN WATERFOOT, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1943, a Beaufort aeroplane crashed and exploded in the Solway Firth, about half a mile south-east of Annan Waterfoot. The sea was calm, with a light westerly...
Category: Services
A Vessel
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
Royal Humane Society Awards for Cromer
THE Royal Humane Society has pre- sented its Testimonial on Parchment and Resuscitation Certificate to Robert Charles Davis, the bowman of the Cromer life-boat, and its Resuscitation Certificate to Coxswain Henry Thomas Davis for the rescue...
Category: Awards
Bathing Accidents and Safety Bathing Dresses
WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.
It might...
Category: Articles
Lieutenant Mr. F. W. Hayes, R.N.R., Late District Inspector of Life-Boats
Lieutenant F. W. Hayes, E.N.B., late District Inspector of Life-boats, died in a nursing home on 21st August. He was only in his thirty-fourth year. He was educated at Malvern College, and then became a cadet on H.M.S....
Category: Obituaries
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Stepping up the safety message
The RNLI’s thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones to the sea in 2016. A summer of hot weather...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Capturing the drama Sir - The dramatic photograph of the Portrush lifeboat on page 127 of the Summer issue of the journal must have potential for advertising the RNLI's work and the robust skill and courage of the crews. Why not use it...
Category: Correspondence
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Category: Advertisement
Alice
Several small yachts visited Spurn on the 9th July. After they had set out again a heavy squall sprang up and one of the yachts—the Alice, of Grimsby— drifted aground on the Trinity Sand.
A strong, squally breeze was...
Newby Wyke
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 4.30 p.m. on 29th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Newby Wyke, of Hull, due at Bridlington about 4.15, had a very sick man on board. There was a moderate north westerly...