LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Backbone of the FishingTrade.

This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.

A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...

Backbone of the FishingTrade.

This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.

A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...

May 1997 Jim Mead, president of Molesey branch from 1990 until his death. He was secretary and founder member of the branch from 1976 until 1986 and chairman from 1986. He was awarded the silver badge..

THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...

SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...

On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.

The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.

Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.57 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that flares had been seen be- tween the North and South Smethwick buoys three to five miles east-south-east of...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK AND WELLS, 1 NOKFOLK.—The large sailing Life-boat on j the Gorleston station, which was transferred there from Great Yarmouth in 1883, having become unfit for further service, has recently been replaced by a new boat of...