LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...

THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...

PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.38 on the after- noon of the 26th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that eight fishing cobles were still at sea in bad weather. At 1.50 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched in a flooding...

Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from non-seafaring...

About eight o'clock on the evening of 8th December, 1962, the trawler Boston Heron ran aground at Stilamair, an uninhabited island south-west of Scalpay in the Little Minch. A south- south-westerly gale was blowing, gusting to force 9,...

(The figures refer to the numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 120. Dartmouth, the Karl of, and Hooper, Miss, 265. [142 Peach, Misses Frances and A Friend, 240. his Tenantry, 159. lope, Rev ...

From Mid-Atlantic.

WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...