LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Memoir of the Late Rear-Adml. Washington, F.R.S.
BY RICHARD LEWIS, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IT is with deep regret we record the death of REAR-ADMIRAL WASHINGTON, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. He died at Havre, on the 16th September last, after a painful illness of...
Category: Obituaries
Prince Charles Had a Word for Everyone Bill Adams Extreme Right and Tom Nutman Dl (Scotland North) Fifth from Right Photograph By Courtesy of Daily Express
Prince Charles had a word for everyone . . .
Bill Adams, extreme right, and Tom Nutman, Dl (Scotland, north), fifth from right.
photograph by courtesy of Daily Express . . . and accepted an invitation to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rambler and Mary Ann and Francis
On the 2nd Feb.
this Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was launched five times, with a succession of fresh crews, and ultimately succeeded in saving 13 lives from the schooners Ram- Wer, of Wexford, and Mary Ann, of Ply- mouth...
Three Letters of Thanks. From Navy, Air Service Training, and a Yachtsman
ON the 4th of February, as reported in the Spring Journal, 1951, the Camp- be! town life-boat helped the frigate Loch Fada, which had got into diffi- culties with the landing craft Stalker in tow. The Loch Fada's command- ing officer...
Category: Correspondence
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
First Aid In Life-Boats
A XEW book of instruction on first aid, First Aid for Life-boat Crews, which has been prepared by Dr. Geoffrey Hale, a member of the Committee of Management, has been issued to all life-boat stations. The purpose of the book is to explain...
Category: Articles
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
A NEW division of the St. John Ambu- lance Brigade has been formed at Brixham, where it will work in conjunc- tion with the Torbay life-boat, turning out whenever the life-boat receives a call, and standing by to give first aid to any among...
Category: Articles
Efficient Aid of Coast Guard
In looking over the list of wrecks, no one can fail to be struck at the prominent position occupied by the officers and men of the Coast-Guard Service on all such occasions.
The records of the National Shipwreck Insti-...
Category: Articles
Ann, of Blyth
On the 12th June the brig Ann, of Blyth, parted her cables in a S.E. gale, in Alnmouth Bay, and was driven ashore. The small four-oared self-righting life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly launched in a heavy...