LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FROM time to time special attention has been drawn in the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL to the excellent work in life-saving done by means of Life-boats, etc., connected with the Life-boat services on the Continent and elsewhere, all of which have come...

ARKLOW. — On the morning of the 28th March, the schooner Express, of and for Wexford, from Dublin, while beating down against a strong S.W. wind between the Arklow Bank and the mainland, the weather at the time being thick, with rain, stood...

Many of London’s City workers unwind after a hard day with a trip to the gym or a drink in a bar. But sometimes when he leaves his office in Fenchurch Street David Taylor walks to a floating pier on the River Thames, pulls on a drysuit, and...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—20th November, 1938. A steamer was flying the "Not under control" signal, but lowered the signal, and went on her way.—Rewards, £22 14*. 6d..

The late Jacko Harris with just a few of the many thousands of school children he showed round Appledore lifeboat house in the last 14 years of his life.. - View image in PDF

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Coastguard on duty having observed a small boat about a mile N. of the station, with a signal of distress flying, on the morning of the 26th August, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat. He at once summoned the crew...

water, the submarine.surveying apparatus will be used in addition to the ordinary mode of sweep- ing ; the stages (with the divers down the chain- ladders on their platforms) being drawn by a screw-steamer about half a-mile the hour, there...