LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
King John, of Dover
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 10.32 at night a message was received through the coastguard from a tug attending on the S.S. Helena Modjeska, which had gone aground east of North West Goodwin Buoy on the 12th of...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type for South wold, in the place of a boat stationed there many years since. It is 44 feet long and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (110)
AUGUST 30TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea eight miles south of Hastings, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £28 7s. 6d..
None (23)
FEBRUARY 6TH. - NEWHAVEN , SUSSEX. Heavy explosions had been heard about two miles south-east of Newhaven, but they were found to have been caused by the destruction of mines. - Rewards, £9 15s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (162)
OCTOBER 25TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A parachute had been reported coming down some miles to the northward, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £11 15s..
What a Lot of Bottle!
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station Branches.
BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
How to Act In Cases of Drowning
IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Scillonian and the Launch Kittern
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—On the 10th of September, 1951, the S.S.
Scillonian was bound from Penzancefor St. Mary's with eighty-three people.
The sea was smooth, but there was a very...
The Help of Coxswains and Crews
THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...
Category: Donations