LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

KILDOHAN, ISLE OF ABBAN.—At 6 P.M.

on the 6th October, a vessel was seen flying the signal "I am sinking." The Life-boat Emily Dewar was promptly launched, and found the vessel was the barque Bimac, of Liverpool,...

YACHT'S ENGINE FAILED Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.38 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht was in difficulties, drifting towards the Inner Shoal, and the motor life-boat Michael...

MARTELL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...

Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...

On the 10th December, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brigantine Ino, of West Hartlepool, was observed making for the shore in an apparently sinking state.

It subsequently appeared that she had been in collision with...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the afternoon of the 31st October the owner of a motor yacht which was anchored east of Yarmouth pier hired two men in the motor launch White Heather to put him on board his yacht.

A strong north...

The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...

The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...