LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 1.15 in the afternoon the Holyhead coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed between the breakwater and the Skerries. A strong northwest wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea,...

NOVEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 9.22 A.M. the coastguard reported that an airman had baled out from his aeroplane a mile E.S.E. of the coastguard lookout. A S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight swell. The No. 1...

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

Mallaig -- Scotland Division The beautiful setting of Mallaig is evident, with Loch Nevis stretching away to the east. The harbour entrance faces north between Coteachan...

FOR the last three years the Institution has distributed a Life-boat Calendar, with a view to keeping the work of the j Life-boat Service continually before the public. By doing this the Committee of Management have felt that they might also...

IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...

ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.

of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

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