LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...

The 100-year-old Dutch clipper De Tukker ran aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Amble Harbour, after a tide miscalculation. Amble’s D class Mildred Holcroft crew passed a tow rope from the...

ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...

Gold Medallion Awarded for a Service on the Northumbrian Coast.

" Newton-by-the-Sea, " Tuesday, 2nd December, 1828.

" SIR,—It is with the deepest regret I have to communicate to you the...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 8.11 p.m. on 9th May, 1967, it was learned that the fishing vessel Star of Freedom had engine trouble and was drifting seven miles south by east of Portpatrick. The life-boat Henry Blogg, on temporary duty at...

COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...

CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOBD.—On the night of the 26th November intelligence reached this Life-boat station that a ship was in distress about two miles and a half to the westward of Kilmore, which is twelve miles from Carnsore. Without loss of time...

1. Anchor and cable ; anchor for a 30-feet boat, not less than, 75 Ibs. weight; cable 60 fathoms of 3 -inch rope.

The anchor and cable to be secured to the floor of the boat amidships.

2. A grapnel 25 Ibs....