LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (1)
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.—24th November, 1938. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had made a safe landing. The pilot sent a letter of thanks.—Rewards: Portpatrick, £10 8s. 6d.; Donaghadee,...
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...
Category: Articles
General Practitioner on the Lifeboat By O C Parry- Jones Honorary Medical Adviser Moelfre
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kedah, of Singapore
AUGUST 12TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. At 10.40 in the morning the St. Ives coastguard reported that a tug, with a steamer in tow, north of St. Ives Head, was making little headway. A fresh westerly gale was blowing, with very heavy...
Right: the Rnli's Only Two Female Crew
Right: The RNLI's only two female crew members on lifeboats over ten metres are both to be found in Ireland. Ruth Lennon, pictured here goes out with the Donaghadee lifeboat, (she is the daughter of Coxswain William Lennon), and at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (35)
JUNE 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea twelve miles east of Yarmouth, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d..
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain George Flett, who has been coxswain of the Aberdeen number one life-boat since 1949. For six years he was second coxswain of the boat.
In 1937, when second coxswain, he was awarded...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Fort Frederica, of Portland
FEBRUARY 23RD. - WALMER, KENT. A strong west-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough. In the early morning a ship was seen to be in difficulties. She tried to move to a safe anchorage and grounded on the Goodwin Fork Sands. At...
Air-Cases of Life-Boats
ONE of the chief difficulties which has been experienced by the builders of life-boats, has been that of making the air-cases and compartments, which form their extra buoyancy, perfectly water-tight. Different expedients have been tried, but...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pilcomayo
DOCTOR TAKEN TO BADLY INJURED SEAMAN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th April, 1962, the police at Avonmouth dock informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board a ship...