LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M. on the 8th August, 1938, information was received that a ship was ashore on Whitburn Steel. Later it was reported that a trawler also was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light northerly breeze. It was...

COURTOWN, IRELAND. — On the 16th October, at I P.M., the Alfred and Ernest Life-boat was called out by signals of distress, and brought ashore fourteen men from the fishing-boats Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return, and Jackdaw, of Arklow,...

With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...

Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...

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CHELSEA.—Annual meeting on 29th January, General Sir Walter Braithwaite, G.C.B., Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea! patron of the branch,...

ON March llth, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

(Major-General Seely), coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight,...

NEWBIGGIN BY THE SEA.—Two cobles were in danger, a sudden gale from S.E.

having sprung np while they were working their lines, about two or three miles from the shore, on the morning of the 12th January, and the sea...