LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By VICE-ADMIRAL HYPACIO DE BRION, Inspector and Secretary of the Instituto de Soccorros y Naufragos.UNTIL 1892, Portugal, although a mari-j time country, situated on the western l extreme of the European Continent, and:, on the route for all...

6 January: Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat was called out on her first shout of 2013 when she assisted a local fishing boat experiencing gearbox problems. The fisherman had attached a line to a nearby creel buoy...

OCTOBER 14TH . - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. During the previous night two small boats with naval men aboard had drifted out of harbour, but they made land without help. - Rewards, £5 14s.

SLOOP AGROUND Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Wells, Norfolk. At 10.40 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the Skegness honorary secretary that the sloop Hod o' the Wind was overdue on passage from Boston Ham to Gibralter Point...

MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...

SURVIVORS ON RAFT Stromness, Orkneys. At 5 p.m. on 25th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a Mayday from the trawler Kingston Turquoise of Hull approximate position fourteen miles northnorth-...

SOCIETY SPONSORS INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CLOCK • • JL I A Barometer, Thermometer, Compass and Clock - in a Superb Re-creation of an Antique Ship's Lantern.

effecting 300 years of history, this golden masterpiece...

THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.

While we are, of course, making every...