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COVER PICTURE The 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat stationed at Amble in Northumberland launches into the surf on exercise earlier this year. So far in 1986 there have been 750 services by inflatable lifeboats and .*/- lives saved. While... - View image in PDF

AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 14th of October, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat about one mile off Breill Nook was showing a distress signal and appeared to have broken down. At 4.25 the life-boat...

THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.

Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...

At 7 A.M. on the 5th November, during a strong W.S.W. gale and very heavy sea.

signals of distress were seen on board a small schooner which was in a very dangerous position and dragging her anchors. The steam Life-boat...

About nine P.M. on the 1st December, the barque Bayadere, of Rouen, parted from her anchors, and struck on the rocks near the lighthouse, at Holyhead.

It was blowing at the time a most terrific gale from the N. The Princess...

THE Institution is at present engaged on a major programme of construction and modernization, and at the time of going to press there are no fewer than 17 new life-boats in various stages of construc- tion. The total cost of this boat...