LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 18TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.14 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Holyhead, through the coastguard, that a vessel was on fire. A later message gave her position as 19 miles W.S.W.

BY ALFRED ROBINSON (12}), Warple Way Mixed School, Wandsworth.

Why I admire the Life-Boatman.

MOST of us have had the pleasure of a holiday by the sea during the summer, and probably have enjoyed the...

Walmer, Kent.—At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th October, 1939, a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no...

LAST Christmas a number of Branches again arranged carol-singing parties, and they were even more successful than before, particularly in Sussex. East Grinstead (Sussex), which has led the way with this method of helping the Life-boat...

JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...

FCB2 is the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat, which is being developed to replace the Mersey class. As we reported last year, the hull proved inadequate in rough weather. A new hull shape has now been chosen, and the RNLI hopes the first...

WE feel sure that our readers will be interested in the illustration of the Sumner Life-boat and her crew, which we have received " with their compli- ments and good wishes." For some years past the Institution has been in friendly...

Reciprocal visits across the Channel were renewed in May when a party of 10 committee members of the Dover station branch of the R.N.L.I, and five crew members of the Dover life-boat went by invitation of the Societe Humanite et des...