LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Medical assistance required on 10 March Dover lifeboat was requested to launch to a injured crewman aboard a Dutch cargo vessel lying off Dover.

The Severn class lifeboat, City of London II, launched immediately and located...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At about 5.30 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, the No. 1 man at the Gyleen coast lifesaving station telephoned that a large steamer was near a very dangerous shoal of rocks and appeared to be trying to get clear. A...

On the 3rd August a S.S.W. gale was blowing, ac- companied by a heavy ground sea, and about 11.20 a telephone message was received stating that a fishing boat was outside, and unable to make the harbour. A look-out was kept, and when, some...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report received by the police at Lyndhurst that a yacht was aground off the entrance to the Beaulieu river....

Hecta F100 This instrument is ideal for power vessels since the high power of the transmitter defeats interference from propeller and sea noise and so enables soundings to be obtained at higher speeds and in rougher water than is possible...

CAn event interesting to many in the shipping world took place on the 5th of October in the presence of the Com- mittee of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping Society. The whole of their extensive staff of Surveyors, in this...

During a strong W.S.W. breeze at about 7.30 P.M. on the 21st July a ketch was observed trying to make the harbour; she missed stays, drifted to eastward, and struck the bar just off the east pier. The crew of the Life-boat Michael Henry were...

JUNE 26TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 8.30 in the evening the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was on duty at the local observation post where it was known that the pilot of a Thunderbolt aeroplane to the north of Caister, coming in...