LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Reform of the Mercantile Marine
A VERY remarkable change in public opinion on the subject of the British mercantile marine has been wrought within the last few years; and none of the current topics of the day engross so large a share of the grave interest of reformers,...
Category: Articles
Profile.,,
• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...
Category: Articles
Travelscope
Special Reader Holiday Offers Lifeboats Every booking benefits the RNL I Holidays For Single Travellers 4* Party Weekend - Black Tie Bash 2 Days • 4th February 2006 • Hotel accommodation for one night at the 4* Hanover, Hinckley "In The...
Category: Advertisement
A Fishing Vessel
ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...
Category: Services
Working Together: Helicopters and Lifeboats
AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...
Category: Articles
Past Times (2)
Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...
A Gallant Service In 1912. Silver Medal for the Second Coxswain at Fraserburgh
IT has been decided to make special awards in connexion with a service which took place at Fraserburgh in January, 1912, when the Life-boat was launched to the help of a steam trawler, Clio. The service of the Life-boat was reported to the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
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JULY 5TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but a search, during which a floating mine was seen, found nothing. - Rewards, £6 12s..