LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of Spurn Light...

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Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 8th of April, 1957, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Air Sea Rescue Unit at Tayport saying the poliee had asked the unit to send a motor launch to a position...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...

ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...

40 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, April 1949 issue As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th oJDecember, 1948, the term motor life-boat will no longer be used. "Life-boat" will...

A LIFE-BOAT exhibition was held at Watford, Herts, from 2nd October to 9th October as the principal part of a life-boat week, organized by the new honorary secretary of the branch, Mr.

H. Mellon, M.R.T.S. The exhibition was...

Fig 5 (below): The twin rudders are of fabricated mild steel, with steel stocks sprayed with stainless steel in way of the bearing surfaces.. - View image in PDF