LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hand over Hand Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...

At 11.15 A.M. on the 4th January a moderate north gale was blowing, with a heavy breaking sea. As the local motor fishing cobles Quest and Imperialist were at sea, the No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched. She met...

Sunderland, Co. Durham. — In the afternoon of the 17th November the coxswain saw two cobles in difficulty off Hendon. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin put out at 2.50 A...

Filey, Yorkshire. — During the late afternoon of the 30th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing coble Jean and Barbara, which was overdue, with a crew of three, and at 5.23 the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...

FOR the eighth year running the Institution received at Christmas, from a lady in Hampstead, a gift of all the halfpennies she has collected during the year. Her collection for 1938 was 552. This was 182 more than in...

• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.

The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...

THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....

COBLE WAS ESCORTED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 9.50 a.m. on 23rd October, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the weather was becoming worse and that two cobles were still at sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Richard Ashley was...