LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (2)
IRELAND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.20 a.m.
on 2yth October, 1964, the coxswain was told by a crew member of the Dutch fishing vessel Van Maria that another member of his crew had gone out in a rubber dinghy but had not...
Wreck of the St. George, 1830
ON Friday evening, the 29th of November, 1830, the St. George, a first-class steamer, commanded by Lieut. TUDOR, R.N., arrived at Douglas, Isle of Man, with the mail from Liverpool, and anchored in the bay. The night was stormy, with heavy...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
• Lifeboats of the World by E. W.
Middleton (Blandford Press £3.75) is the most comprehensive study yet made of the way in which different countries organise their lifeboat services. The author examines the services in...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the...
Category: Articles
This Magnificent Model of An American Steam Engine of the 1870S Was Made By Mr E W Sheppard of Sherwood Nottingham
This magnificent model of an American steam engine of the 1870s was made by Mr E. W.
Sheppard of Sherwood, Nottingham, seen here running the engine for children's rides.
Mr Sheppard turned his hand to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Polynesia
Information having been given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel had been seen ashore off Beachy Head, during a strong W.S.W. breeze, a heavy sea, and a thick fog on the 24th April, the Lifeboat Michael Henry was launched at...
People and Places
Happy Christinas The American, Mr J. P. Young, is popular man among RNLI lifeboat crews. Every year he selects a different part of the coast for his generous gift of whisky to lifeboatmen. It is his way of showing admiration for the work...
Category: Articles
The Price of Fish In London
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As so many of the gallant men who are ever ready to man the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION belong to the hardy fish- ing population of our coasts, I have...
Category: Correspondence
Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats Made An Extensive Search for Survivors from the Motor Cruiser Darlwin Which Disappeared With Little Trace Off the South West Coast In July, 1966
Life-boats made an extensive search for survivors from the motor cruiser Dor/win which disappeared with little trace off the south west coast in July, 1966. Here the Falmouth life-boat is shown returning with flag at half-mast, with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs