LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Alaska Cruise & the Canadian Rockies Every booking benefi ts the RNLI from £1599 Let your spirit soar higher than an American eagle on this epic journey into the heart of the ‘Big Lonely’, Alaska. Once only the hardiest souls could...

Ix a former number of this Journal we have recorded that 36,000 fishing-boats, employ- ing 150,000 men and boys, are annually engaged in the fisheries of the United King- dom. In the April number will be found some statistics of the Herring...

January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...

Exmouth, Devonshire.—On the morning of the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that the Lyme Regis harbour- master had reported a vessel apparently adrift from her moorings.

He later reported that she had anchored off...

LYTHAM.—While the heavy gale was blowing on the 7th October, the steam tender Florence;, of Preston, was seen to part one of her chains and collide with another steamer, damaging both vessels.

The sea being very high, at...

Presentation of Medals and Other Awards.

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.— On 14th March a meeting was held at the Coliseum, Great Yarmouth, at which the Mayor presided, supported by Mr.

A. H. Cartwright,...

On the 4th March the morning was comparatively fine, and all the boats started for the fishing-grounds at about 6 o'clock. At about 10, however, a gale from S.E. suddenly rose accompanied by a heavy sea, compelling them to abandontheir...

READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...