LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 16TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

While out fishing the fishing smack Fisher Lass, of Douglas, broke her engine shaft, about nine miles south-east-by-east of Douglas Head. The sea was smooth, with a light wind blowing....

THE British and Norwegian crews of the whaling ships Southern Em- press and Southern Princess, on their return from their whaling season in the Antarctic, sent the Institution £51 2s. 3d..

THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1954, the Nells Point coastguard telephoned that the sandsucker Bow- star, of Cardiff, was burning a flare one and a half miles west of Steep Holme.

COPIES of the following circular, relative to the proper management of boats when running to the shore before a heavy broken sea, have been forwarded to the branches of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, with the view to its being...

SUMMARY OF SERVICES IN 1963 Number of times life-boats called out on service Number of times inshore rescue boats called out on service Number of lives saved by life-boats Number of lives saved by inshore rescue boats Number of lives saved...

During fine weather, with a smooth sea, on the 4th April, the Coastguard reported shortly after midnight that a message had been received from the North Goodwin Light- vessel stating that a steamer was ashore on the Sands. The Life-boat...

Dunbar, East Lothian. At two o'clock on the morning of the 9th of Nov- ember, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Edinburgh had reported the sailing boat Mudlark, with three young men on board, missing...