LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

yachting and boating weekly.

Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 12th of November, 1948, it was reported that the life-boat bowman had gone fishing to the north in a small boat and had not returned.

A strong, squally wind was blowing...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the coxswain, who knew that the motor launch which attends on the residents of Steep Holm Island was away at the island, kept a look out for her, as a fresh S.S.E. breeze...

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...

JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...

On the 18th May, shortly after noon, information was received that a vessel was ashore on the Gorton Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were im- mediately summoned and the Life-boat launched. On the inner bank, the brigantine...

OCTOBER 18TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a Mustang aeroplane had fallen into the sea about a mile from Chapel St. Leonards in a south-easterly direction. A...