LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the night.of the 11th November, 1877, it was reported that a vessel was ashore off Sandown.

It was then blowing a hurricane from the S., with thick rain. The Worcester Life-boat was taken...

IN 1930 the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands, and placed there a 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat, the largest and most powerful type which it is now building. (A full description of this...

JANUARY 29TH-31ST and FEBRUARY 1ST.

- CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.50 A.M. information came to the Cloughey station from the coastguard at Tara that the S.S. Alhena, of Rotterdam, of 5,000 tons, laden with...

DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.

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 Before forecasting was an established science, many mariners relied on the behaviour of a certain tree frog to predict storms. Needless to say, it wasn’t terribly reliable and, even today, Germans use wetterfrosch colloquially to refer... - View image in PDF

AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...

THE problem of establishing communi- cation between the Life-boat and the Lifevessel in distress has for many years occupied the attention of the technical officers of the Institution. Up to the present the only device has been the Cane...

25 November: When Broughty Ferry lifeboat was unable to locate a jet-skier who had called for help just after lunchtime, a major search and rescue operation was mounted, involving an RAF rescue helicopter and...