LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Power-Driven Life-Boats
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Rowan
REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched at 12.45 A.M. on the 14th April, it having been reported that a steamer was stranded on the West Eoek.
The wind was blowing a light breeze from the W., but a strong sea was...
Fortified Church Tower, Longhoughton
Fortified Church Tower Longhoughton. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy and Lady Loren
Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
The St. Gowan Lightvessel.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the St. Gowan light vessel. The life-boat White Star was launched with a doctor on board at 11.14...
The St. Gowan Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.5 on the .
afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man on the St. Gowan lightvessel was ill and needed a doctor. A quarter of an hour later the Superintendent of...
Arthur Lowe
It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.
Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...
Category: Obituaries
The Women of Cresswell
The women of Cresswell, Northumberland, help with the recovery of the lifeboat Martha.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Lower Right) Captain Rowlock
(lower right) Captain Rowlock and Unable Seaman Bilge put a humorous shine on lessons in sensible seamanship - although Captain Rowlock did seem to spend quite a lot of the time in the water!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs