LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Preservation of Life from Drowning
SIR, IT is an important and cheering feature of the present age, that the general interests of our common humanity are so extensively cared for; and this has in various ways been exemplified, as it regards the physical wellbeing of our own...
Category: Correspondence
On the Goodwin Sands
The Walmer life-boat and wrecks of American ships. - View image in PDF
(See page 333). - View image in PDF
From a photograph by Mr. Amos Burg, of Portland, Oregan, U.S.A.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Cruiser and a Yacht
Cruiser sinks minutes after crew rescued Fowey South West Division The vigilance of Fowey Deputy Launching Authority Capt Mike Mitchell, which led to the Fowey lifeboat leaving harbour as a casualty fired her first red flare, has been...
An Aeroplane (8)
JUNE 4TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
An aeroplane had been reported to have fallen into the sea, but later news was received that she was safe.-Rewards, £4 10s..
An Aeroplane (38)
MARCH 26TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
An aircraft flying low had been seen suddenly to lose height and was presumed to have crashed, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 16s..
An Anson Aeroplane (5)
DECEMBER 26TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported overdue, but nothing was found and it was learned that the aeroplane had crashed on the shore. - Rewards, £12..
Argonaut
At 12.55 a.m. on igth September, 1966, the motor fishing vessel Argonaut of Kirkaldy, was reported ashore on the Cairns of Coll after a May-day call. The life-boat E. M. M. Colby Cubbin was launched at 1.15 in a light southerly wind and a...
The Gear a Life-Boat Carries
Assistant Chief Inspector of Life-boats A MODERN life-boat may cost as much as £36,500. The great bulk of the cost is, of course, that of the hull and machinery, but a modern life-boat also carries a variety of stores and equip- ment....
Category: Articles
Agm (Continued from Page 51}
(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...
Category: Meetings
Profile...
• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
Category: Committee