LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

tHen AnD nOw Capital gains In 1927, London ‘life-boat’ day was a huge operation, supported by the Lord Mayor of London and many of the borough mayors. Four thousand collectors, mainly women, worked from 150 temporary...

‘THIS BRAVE OLD SEAMAN’

I thought you might be interested in the enclosed taken from The Seamen of the Downs by the Rev Thomas Treanor, c1890s.

‘… There is a Norse flavour...

As cruising yachtsmen most of us will go through life without needing a lifeboat.

Growing experience, natural caution and a healthy respect for the sea backed up with good safety equipment should see us through. But the...

At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...

JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.

At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...

In a lifetime of sailing and the sea, participation and service have gone hand in hand.7 have always been interested in boats that would go faster than their wave length speed . . .'FOR MAJOR-GENERAL RALPH FARRANT a constant search for...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Samuel Cunningham of Portrush.

He was appointed coxswain in July 1946, having been second coxswain since January 1937 apart from a period of six years when he was away on war service...

Thursday, 20th April, 1939.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported that His Grace the Duke of Portland, K.G., had agreed to become acting president of the Institution during the absence in...