LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SURVIVORS FROM RAFT LANDED Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.51 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Scampton had picked up a man and a woman from a raft about 40 miles...

THE first three months of 1958 have offered striking evidence of the help given by life-boats to a great variety of vessels serving the commerce of the country in different ways and, in particular, to fishing boats. Of the 106 launches by...

THIS article appeared in The Field on 8th April and is reproduced by permission of The Field'?, editor. We consider it a most helpful, informative and balanced article, although the comment about the attitude of crews towards...

Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...

Retirement from the Post of Chief Inspector.

ON 14th August Captain Howard F. J.

Rowley, C.B.E., E.N., to the great regret of the Committee of Manage- ment and the officers and staff of the Institution,...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. — Later on the same day, 5th October, 1939, information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned...

THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....

Fishermen stranded by engine failure There are many situations that a lifeboat coxswain does not look forward to.

Bad weather, manoeuvring with boats close together, towing a heavy, unwieldy vessel, waiting at sea for the...