LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A large Greek steamer named the Othon Stathatos, of Ithaca, carrying a crew of twenty-three hands, and bound from Penarth to Athens with a cargo of 6,000 tons of coal, struck a submerged rock about two miles north of Pendeen and commenced to...

ANOTHER life-boat balloon race has been held, this time by the St. Albans and Harpenden branch, in connexion with its life-boat day, last September.

Altogether 800 balloons were sent up.

Each had a label...

EARLS COURT, January 2-12DIM - BUT BUOYANTDESPITE a background of national anxiety, reduced opening hours and minimum heat and light, the 1974 International Boat Show at Earls Court was, as always, a buoyant and happy prologue to the new...

FOR some time past the Morning Post has published in its " Personal" adver- tisement ' column what it calls " Peter Piper's Potted Plots," three prizes of one pound each being given, each day for the best potted...

Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...

AN important extension of the Institu- tion's practice of encouraging rescues by shore-boats was put into effect in the summer of 1962 by the Institution in conjunction with the Ministry of Trans- port. Its purpose is to make wider and...

MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.

accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...

Relief Waveney LIFEBOATS OF THE RELIEF FLEET are vitally important and can be busier than station lifeboats, but as they have no permanent station their naming ceremonies can take place inland. In 1966 the RNLI's first 70ft lifeboat,...