LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.

Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....

" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

The schooner Jane Douglas, of Gloucester, bound from Plymouth for Liverpool, showed signals of distress at 5.40 on the morning of the 17th November. The Holyhead No. 1 Life-boat, Thomas Fielden, immediately put off, and on reaching the...

DECEMBER 6TH. - CLOVELLY. DEVON.

The S.S. Mousse le Moyec, of Lorient, was in distress, and the life-boat was launched with the help of all the women of the village, but she could not go beyond the race at Hartland Point in...

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Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.3 on the after- noon of the 12th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Garland had broken down with engine trouble off Dumpton Gap. Further informiHon was asked for as the...