LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Late Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N.
IT is with very great regret that we announce the death of Commander Stopford Cyril Douglas, R.N., who had been Deputy Chief Inspector of Lifeboats for the past eight years. He had been ill for several months, had undergone two operations,...
Category: Obituaries
Tyre-Ing Carnival Day!
Eight-year-old Heather Lean took to the boats to help Newquay lifeboat station last summer. She joined Newquay's carnival parade in a new design of 'inshore lifeboat' - specially made for her by her grandfather Jack Parkin,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Fishing Boats
MARCH. 8TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. During the morning a strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the fresh water from the flooded river Girvan was making the harbour bar extremely dangerous. Five fishing boats from Girvan and two...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
Category: Services
The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left)
The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Life-Boats
HARTLEPOOL. SEAMEN'S LIFE-BOAT.—This boat, of the establishment of which, by the seamen of Hartlepool, we gave a description in our last number, has soon had opportunities for rendering essential service, and so of effecting the humane...
Category: Services
After He Had Named James Cable He Went Aboard
. . . after he had named James Cable he went aboard for a demonstration beach launch over the skids and trip afloat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Literature of the Life-Boat"
IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th July, 1914.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair. Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
Menacing Goodwins By Arthur Gaunt
DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...
Category: Articles