LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ILB in near gale RED FLARES SIGHTED Off WhitStable Street Buoy were reported to the honorary secretary of Whitstable ILB station by Warden Point Coastguard, Isle of Sheppey, at 2342 on Friday, February 25. In view of the bad weather...

Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.

By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...

THE Institution has lost by death a number of its workers and friends since the last issue of The Life-boat was published. Notices of their work for the Institution will appear in the next number..

Mr S J Atkinson-Carter, Bishops Waltham branch press officer from 1980 to 1985. He was vice chairman from 1981 to 1985 and 1992 to 1996, chairman from 1985 to 1987 and 1988 to 1992 and box secretary and speaker from 1992 until his death. He...

THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in Greater London and the Mid- lands, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting...

IT is with the deepest regret that we have to record the death of Lieut.- Augustus Philip Clayton, of Coombe Colonel Sir FitzRoy Augustus Talbot Bank, Kent. He was educated at Clayton, K.C.V.O., which took place i Eton and served in the...

THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.

It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...

"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...