LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...

On the 31st July the barge Audrey, of London, with a crew of two, had her sails carried away in the Whitaker channel, while bound from London to Rochford with a cargo of wheat. A moderate to strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....

On the 31st March a visitor went for a row in a small boat, but was carried out to sea by the wind and tide. He was seen by the coastguard, and the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched to his help at 12.23 P.M. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...

GORDON STABLES, Esq., M.D., E.N., of Twyford, Berkshire, the well-known author, in a letter published a short time since in The Stock-keeper and Fancier's Chronicle, made the following admirable suggestion, which we trust may be carried...

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...

A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.

She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...