LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peyton – the World’s Greatest Yachting Cartoonist
Peyton – the World’s Greatest
Yachting Cartoonist
by Dick Durham
Review by David Brann
Mike Peyton’s cartoons have wrung a wry smile from many a yachtsman. We may laugh or wince as...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 74 feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales In Scotland. National Life-Boat Assembly In Edinburgh. Life-Boat Ball In Glasgow
ON 21st November last, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., paid a special visit to Scotland, as President of the Institution, to attend a Scottish National Life-boat Assembly in Edinburgh and a Life-boat Ball, on the same day, in...
Category: Meetings
J. W.A., of Aberayron
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. — On the 15th October the No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perrott, was launched at about 2 P.M., during a whole gale from the W.N.W., signals of distrejs having been shown by the schooner J. W.A., of Aberayron, bound from...
Obituary of the Years of the War, 1939 to 1945
DURING the war over 200 honorary workers and friends of the Institution died. Among them were three members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, killed in an aeroplane accident on active service, H.R.H....
Category: Obituaries
On Entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man
THE feudal keep, the bastions of Cohorn, Even when they rose to cheek or to repel Tides of aggressive war, oft served as well Greedy ambition, armed to treat with scorn Just limits ; but yon Tower, whose smiles adorn This perilous bay,...
Category: Poetry
Looking Back By Lt Commander Harold H Harvey Vrd Rnr
WHEN I TOOK my leave of the lifeboat service on December 31, 1973, it was after 21J years service as divisional inspector and superintendent of the Depot. At the age of 32 years I was serving as a lieutenant on the teaching staff of the...
Category: Articles
The Hospital Ship Gloucester, Torpedoed By a German Submarine
(Under the Geneva Convention Hospital Ships are immune from attack by civilized belligerents.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
A Harbour Fete at the Little Northumbrian Coastal Village of Craster Last July Raised £1531 for the Lifeboat Service It Was Opened With Charm and Wit By Joyce Grenfell
A harbour fete at the little Northumbrian coastal village of Craster last July raised £.1,531 for the lifeboat service. It was opened with charm and wit by Joyce Grenfell who also sang snatches of her songs, everyone joining in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs