LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The H.M.T. Resmilo
JUNE 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2 in the morning information came from the senior naval officer that H.M.T. Resmilo had been bombed in Peterhead Bay, and with a doctor and the senior naval officer on board the...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
AUGUST 19TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 11.30 in the morning a message came from the Fairlight coastguard that what he thought was a rubber dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane flying from west to east, and that he was...
Mr. John Prior, Deal
Mr. John Prior, of Deal, who died on 14th December last at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty-five years the secretary of one of the most im- portant life-boat stations on our coasts —the famous station at North...
Category: Obituaries
Old Life-Boats
THE adventures of life-boats after they pass out of the service have, from time to time, been recorded in this journal.1 Some go far afield. One became a launch on a South African river. An- other, a steam life-boat, was sent some years ago...
Category: Articles
Books for the Young
Two selections of stories for the young which have recently been published contain accounts of the exploits of the great Cromer coxswain, Henry Blogg.
All in the Day's Work (Hamish Hamil- ton 6/6) opens with an extract...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
The Story of the Land's End Lifeboats (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 155.) is the second volume in the admirable series on Cornish life-boats being fompiled by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr under the composite title Wreck md Rescue...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
The Value of Life-Belts on Shipboard
IN an account of the loss of the ship St. Abbs, on the coast of Madagascar, on the 15th of June, 1855, when 22 persons un- fortunately perished, it is recorded that " a seaman saved himself by tying an empty tin oil-can to his back,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-earriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a "very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a, carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles