LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.

last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...

WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...

Three rescued in hurricane SILVER MEDAL IN THE EARLY HOURS of Friday, October 16, 1987, hurricane force south-southwesterly winds of force 16-17, gusting at times to more than 100 knots, left a trail of destruction along the south and...

Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...

Angle, Pembrokeshire April 18.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow May 20.

Arranmore, Co. Donegal Vlay 3.

iarmouth, Merionethshire May 16.

Jarra Island, Outer Hebrides March 22, 24 and...

Eyemouth.—Shortly before noon on the 6th March, when a whole S.S.E. . gale was blowing, the Coastguard re- j ported that a vessel was in distress off j St. Abbs Head, and in urgent need of j assistance. The Eyemouth Life-boat | Anne Frances...

AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.

Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...

SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...