LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(including postage &. pac Empires of the ancient near east is the definitive, lavishly illustrated chronicle of the four monumental civilisations that prospered between the end of the Stone Age and the advent of Hellenistic...

The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, concludes his report from the 1995 International Lifeboat Conference with a look at the development of new lifeboats around the world and initiatives to improve safety at sea There...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952. a local man telephoned that he had seen two trawlers off Ness Battery, one of which appeared to be in diffi- culties. The life-boat honorary secre- tary and...

On the- 29th April, the schooner John 0. Wade, of Newry, was stranded off Troon Harbour, N.B. It was blowing a heavy N.W. gale at the time.

The Glasgow Workmen's life-boat put off, and, after some difficulty, succeeded...

A GIFT of seven shillings has been received from the Isle of Wight.

It is the proceeds of a penny com- petition for guessing the weight of a marrow, grown in a garden at Shanklin, which, weighed twenty-nine,...

MARCH 2ND. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.

An aeroplane had been reported missing, and it was thought that she might have come down at sea, but she had crashed on the beach. - Rewards, £12 9s..

SEPTEMBER 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

At 4.24 P.M. an aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea three miles north of the life-boathouse, but only oil on the water was found, and a bright green patch showing that it was a...

FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...