LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (87)
AUGUST 12TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea some four miles north of Bude, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £21 14s. 6d..
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamer Tuskar, of Glasgow
At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th February, the screw steamer Tuskar, \ of Glasgow, bound from Dundee to Liver- j pool, got on shore, in heavy weather, on the Abertay Sand Bank, at the mouth of , the Kiver Tay, A heavy sea...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. A Small fishing boat of Porthallow with one man on board capsized and sank off Porthallow Cove when returning from fishing at about 1.30 P.M. on the 6th April. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea....
Category: Services
Wading into the unknown
When a 6-year-old girl died of polio after swimming at a sewage-contaminated beach, her grieving parents sparked a campaign that would leave a lasting public legacy
Caroline Wakefield died...
Category: Articles
Above: the new boathouse and slipway take shape beside the old
Above: The new boathouse and slipway take shape beside the old. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Review
The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...
Category: Articles
MAYDAY AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH
The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast
It’s the end of a blustery October day in...
Category: Articles
His Majesty King Constantine of the Hellenes
His Majesty King Constantine | of the Hellenes makes his address before presenting the awards in the Royal Festival N Hall. The King is an experigf enced yachtsman and won an Olympic Gold Medal in the Dragon class in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
D. L. Harper
The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.