LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Alexander Nelson of Donaghadee. He has been a member of the Donaghadee life-boat crew since 1912. He was appointed bowman in 1929, second coxswain in 1949, and coxswain in 1954. During the period of a...
Category: Articles
Two Tank Landing Craft
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ST. DAVID'S APRIL 25TH - 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At ten in theevening a message was received from the coastguard, that a tank landing craft was in distress one mile southsouth- east of St. Ann’s Head....
Forecasts of Weather
By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...
Category: Articles
The Service to the Carmania II
The Stromness Lifeboat is lying off the steamer, and the rope by which the crew were rescued can just be seen over the steamer's stern. - View image in PDF
(Seepage 211.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oldest Life-Boat Collector
BY the death of Mr. Webster Hoare, of St. Albans, on 20th October, the Institution has lost its oldest collector.
Mr. Hoare was nearly 87, and for nearly 30 years had collected for the Institution.
On...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Afon Gwili
APRIL 9TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
The police reported at 2.30 A.M.
that rockets had been seen north of Southport Pier, and the motor life-boat Dunleary put out at 3.10 A.M. A moderate...
Tlemcen, the French Tug Champion and Bhutan
MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...
A Photograph Taken from the Cockpit of the Whirlwind Helicopter As It Approached to Land at the Detachment at R.A.F. Chivenor, North Devon. Other Detachments of 22 Squadron Are Located at V
A photograph taken from the cockpit of the Whirlwind helicopter as it approached to land at the detachment at R.A.F. Chivenor, North Devon. Other detachments of 22 Squadron are located at Valley, Anglesey, and Thorney Island, Hampshire..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Caronte
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.22 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Caronte, of Rouen, which was at anchor one and a half miles south-cast of Spurn Point, had re- ported that she had a...
The Danish Motor Fishing Boat Koivisto
ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...