LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dashing Wave
Information reached Harwich about 4.20 P.M. on the 21st January that a vessel was on the Cork Sands, amd the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow proceeded to her.
They found she was the schooner Dashing Wave, of Fowey, bound...
An American Fortress Aeroplane (3)
OCTOBER 17TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Ten men had baled out from an American Fortress aeroplane, but no trace of them was found, although aeroplanes and other vessels joined in the search. - Rewards : Cromer, £9 3s. 6d. ; and...
What Are Lifeboats Made Of? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...
Category: Articles
From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
Category: Articles
On the Self-Righting Principle In Life Boats
SINCE the publication of the Report of the Northumberland Life-boat Committee, a good deal has been said and written on the subject of the self-righting principle in life-boats in the event of their being upset, a quality which was strongly...
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The Loss of the Pandora
DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
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An Aeroplane (167)
NOVEMBER 1 8TH. - PORTRUSH, CO.
ANTRIM. At 6.45 A.M. information was received through the military authorities that a bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea off Castlerock and that two of the crew of six were believed...
Ipswich (The Town Of) Life-Boat Fund
! E. GRIMWADE, Esq., Mayor, K.OBEHT RANSOMS, Esq.
GECKO R JossEfcrs, Esq Honorary Secretary—Mr- W. BATEMAN Bvso.
Strsdbroke, Right Hon. (Lord Lieut, of the County) .
Rendlesham,Right...
Category: Donations
Sir William Hillary: "A Son of All Countries."
THE Spanish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has named the new Motor Life-boat which it has stationed at Malaga, near Gibraltar, the Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institution, Colonel Sir "William Hillary, Bt., who...
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Annual General Meeting
and presentation of awards FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, MAY 21A BRIGHT, sunny morning; friends from all parts of Britain and Ireland gathering on the South Bank of the Thames ready for the annual general meeting and presentation of awards in this...
Category: Meetings