LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following account of a disastrous shipwreck which recently occurred near Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, cannot fail to be interesting to all who peruse it. We think it deserving of record on three accounts —1st. As an instance of...

On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.

That night nine Life-boats...

In this issue News 2 Letters 8 Feature Better beaches, safer seas 10 The editor looks at the beach rescue pilot scheme that has been running on 22 south west beaches over the summer months Lifeboats in action A Vellum-winning rescue by the...

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Japan.

THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...

THE GOODWINS SPARE A SHIP As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that...

Ex-trawler ablaze THE HARWICH Waveney class relief lifeboat Khami was returning from a publicity visit to the East Coast Boat Show at Ipswich on the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 1987, when the fiveman crew spotted smoke billowing from the...

The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...