LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. E. Selby Davidson
MR. E. SELBY DAVIDSON, who died on the 8th August, 1963, was honorary secretary of the Tynemouth life-boat station for 24 years. He was appointed in September, 1939, and from May, 1962, served as joint honor- ary secretary with Captain D....
Category: Obituaries
Firms and Their Products
• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.
The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales and the English Freemasons
A SPECIAL Grand Lodge of the English Free- : masons was held on the 3rd January at Free- ! masons' Hall, London, to receive and consider | the Report of the Special Committee appointed by Grand Lodge on the 6th September last, on the...
Category: Articles
Kelpie, of London
On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.
On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel...
Akabahra
FEBRUARY 22ND . - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire several miles to the east of Dunbar.
She had been seen by the Observer Corps post on the coast. A...
News
Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
Category: Articles
Corbon, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat,...
The Life-Boat
Hark! amid the darkness falling, And the thund'ring winds appalling, Comes an urgent signal calling Help from o'er the seas! House, ye heroes, brave and daring, Ye of life and limb unsparing, Oft with death before you staring, Face...
Category: Poetry
Gardelwen
Disabled A FISHING VESSEL, Gardelwen, suffering engine and steering failure was reported to the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 0330 on Sunday October 31, 1982. She was 17'/2 miles bearing 265°M from Barmouth and...
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
Category: Articles