LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. W. DOUGLAS JOHNSTON, O.B.E., J.P., has been elected an HONORARY LIFE- GOVERNOR of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service both as a member of the local committee and as chairman...

WE extract from the Nautical Magazine the following paper from the pen of Capt. K. B. MARTIN, Harbour Master, Ramsgate.

It contains some pertinent remarks on the subject of collisions at sea, and especially points to an...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....

CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 10.50 P.M. on the 6th February, 1899, in keenly frosty weather, while a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and a thick haze, and went...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 8.8. p.m. on loth August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that two boys had been cut off by the tide south of Clarach. At 9.12 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle south-westerly breeze and...

Galway Bay - At 10 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, the doctor requested the services of the life-boat to transport a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. At 11.10 the life-boat John R.

Webb, on temporary duty at the...

A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...

Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At about 3.10 P.M. on the 24th July, 1938, just as the annual sacred service at the life-boathouse was beginning, news was received that a sea-plane had come down three or four miles off Port Erin.

A...