LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart
IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...
Category: Articles
Experimental R/T Sets for IRBS
Nine inshore rescue boats are being fitted experimentally with very high frequency radio telephones. The boats selected are stationed at Bangor, Berwick- upon-Tweed, Bridlington, Eastney, Holyhead, The Mumbles, Southend-on- Sea, Torbay and...
Category: Articles
Sir William Hillary, Bart
AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...
Category: Articles
Correct Method of Holding An Icarus Rocket for Firing (The Firing Lever Is Shown In Its Cocked Position at the Base of the Right-Hand Thumb).
Correct method of holding an Icarus rocket for firing (the firing lever is shown in its cocked position at the base of the right-hand thumb).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, while the IRB was on patrol off Porthmeor beach during a surf life-saving competition, her crew were told that a swimmer was in difficulties between Crowner Rock and Clodgy Point. The...
Sand Runner
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 7.40 in the morning on the 31st of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had been reported aground at Porth- meaor beach. At 8.3 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched, in a slight...
Long Service Awards
The Long Service Badge for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aith - Assistant Mechanic J.W. Hunter (posthumous) Bembridge - Winchman O. Harbour Blackpool - Crew Member...
Category: Awards