LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

She was the...

Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. — 15th February, 1938. A report that the s.s.Helen, of Saltvik, Finland, had wirelessed that she was in difficulties had been received and the Lowestoft lifeboat went out. She...

In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 114, 126, 132, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive:...

Competitors in the strenuous Wards Hill Challenge aboard Kirkwall's Arun class lifeboat Mickie Salveson. There are four hills to climb - but the snag is they are on four different islands and there is 73 miles of cycling and 8 miles of... - View image in PDF

OCEAN CRUISE UK - No Fly in plete British Charters 5- . "*r ~* '.~t% Onboard the MY Van Gogh Thousands of happy cruisers have already fallen in love with the impressive MV Van Gogh, with its excellent range of facilities and very...

A SERVICE which will be recorded on the station board with the curt statement "Stood by vessel" was recently carried out in such exceptionally difficult conditions that it has led to the award of a silver medal to the Torbay...

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided •with a carnage, oa which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

IN the 19th Number of this Journal we replied to the various theoretical objections that had been advanced against the selfrighting principle, and demonstrated that the same means which were employed to produce that effect contributed to the...