LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
Category: Articles
An Anson R.A.F. Trainer Aeroplane
MARCH 29TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson R.A.F.
trainer aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £20 16s..
Notes of the Quarter
The last number of THE LIFE-BOAT gave the news that the Institution's deficit in 1967 was likely to exceed £400,000. This has now been confirmed, and the accounts showed that the final figure was £400,084.
The...
Category: Articles
Even More on the Lagos Pilot Boat
Even more on the Lagos Pilot Boat I have been following the letters on the Lagos pilot boat with interest. This is partly because the Queen was originally propelled by water jets and the photograph with Mr Powell's letter in the Autumn... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inflatable Dinghy (2)
Two ILBs search A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY in which it was thought there were two boys and which appeared to be in difficulty 600 yards off Southerness Light was reported to Silloth ILB station by Ramsey Coastguard at 1819 on Wednesday May 2;...
Yankee Girl
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 8th of October, 1960, the coxswain reported that the motor fishing boat Yankee Girl had not returned from fishing at Youghal Bay. A near gale was blowing from the north-west, and there was...
The S.S Hawkwood
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a roan heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself.
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK (MIDDLESEX).
—Annual Meeting on llth April.
Speakers : The Mayor and the District Organizing Secretary....
Category: Branches
Memoir of the Late Rear-Adml. Washington, F.R.S.
BY RICHARD LEWIS, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IT is with deep regret we record the death of REAR-ADMIRAL WASHINGTON, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. He died at Havre, on the 16th September last, after a painful illness of...
Category: Obituaries