LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Importer of Life-boats.

THIS Life-boat left Cowes for her station on Saturday, 22nd October last. She is a sister boat to the new Plymouth Life-boat described in the last...

March April and May 1997 Aberdeen. Grampian Arun: Mar 24. 26 and Apr 8 D class: Mar 24, Apr 8. May 23 and 26 Abersoch. Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Mar 18. 24, May 3 (twice), 17 and 27 Achill Island, Co Mayo Waveney: Mar 1, 19 and Apr 12 Aith....

Selsey, Sussex.—10th August. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea and the life-boat, in charge of Captain J. N.

Tait, D.S.C., R.N., honorary secretary, put out with a scratch crew, the Tegular crew being at sea. A motor boat...

THURSDAY, 1st June, 1911. j The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., ; in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting. ! Also read those of -the Building, Finance j and Correspondence, Wreck and...

THE Model Engineer Exhibition very kindly gave the Institution space for a display when it was held this year at the Horticultural Hall from August the 9th to the 19th. The Institution showed models of the first lifeboat, a pulling and...

A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.

C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by...

THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M. on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel with a telescope it...