LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sea Fisheries of Scotland
THE recently published Annual Report of the Scottish Fishery Board is full of interesting and useful information on this very important part of the national industries and food supplies.
This Board, as at present...
Category: Articles
Listings
Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...
Category: Articles
Artistry In Cornwall And Whitby
Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches
THE question may be asked, what hare the com- munities living incur large commercial centres, and the large inland towns of the United King- dom, in common with the work of the life-saving apparatus on the sea coast ? Why should they be...
Category: Branches
The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
Aneroid Barometers
Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.
Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...
Category: Advertisement
Westward Ho
At 1.30 A.M. on the 7th August a tele- phone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that the Kentish Knock Light-vessel was firing signals for a ship in distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were...
Emile
Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 15th May information was received that one of the fishing- boats, which had gone drifting for mackerel the previous night at 6.30 P.M., was missing. A strong N.E. gale had been blowing all night, and the Coast-...
White Heather
At about 8.35 P.M. on the 8th June, a telephone message was received from the coast- guard at St. Agnes that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off St.
Agnes, and unable to make harbour.
A...
Emma Sauber
— At 10.47 P.M. on the 25th January the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was drifting ashore at Carnalea, between Donaghadee and Belfast. A whole north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and a snow blizzard. The motor life-boat...