LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.

The boat being...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.55 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the bowman informed the honorary secretary that a small boat under oars was making poor progress about three-quarters of a Bile east of the station. The honorary lecretary...

THE RIGHT HON. LORD TWEEDMOUTH, FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, IN THE CHAIE.

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Moved by The Chairman.

Seconded by the Plight Hon. The EARL PERCY, M.P.

That the Annual...

NOVEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEM-BROKESHIRE. A ship's boat with men on board, thought to be from a vessel which had been sunk by enemy action, was reported to be drifting off St. Govan’s Head, but nothing was found. Later it was learned that...

It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...

Thanks of the Institution on Vellum The Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement.

REV. W. CARROLL, of...

The Steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 11.25 A.M., on the 29th January, the Coxswain having observed a schooner in the outer roads, with a signal of distress flying.

A strong gale was blowing from N...

ONCE again it becomes our duty to draw the attention of our friends to the sta- tistics published by the Board of Trade, relative to the wrecks occurring on our rock-bound shores. The Register, re- cently laid before the public, furnishes...