LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 13TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 5 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea half a mile east of Buchanness, and the motor life-boat .Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.5 P.M...

NOVEMBER 10TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot and his two passengers were rescued from the shore. The owner of the aeroplane gave a donation to the Institution. - Rewards, £10 11s...

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...

Starting them young! Eleven month old Adam Sheahan pictured left, has to be one of the RNLI's youngest fundraisers. He spent a day with his grandma, May Perkins, when she went out collecting on behalf of Hertford fundraising branch. The... - View image in PDF

At the time this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is published the Mersey, the RNLI's latest class of lifeboat, will be on show to the public at the London Boat Show in Earls Court.

in this article Keith Thatcher, one of the...

By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coast- guardman arrived and informed the cox-...

THE public have to thank Dr. ALLNATT, of Frant, for an excellent review of the weather of the past twelve months. It is always pleasant to be able to correct one's vague recollections by an actual record; and there is, perhaps, no...