LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...

Launches 41 Lives rescued 56

APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...

IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...

South Eastern Division Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower...

The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.

Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...

Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.

It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. — The Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief men to the Blackwater Lightvessel and the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse as the Commissioners' boats were not available. At 12.30 on the...

725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.

VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.

ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...