LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. Henry Fargus died on 26th April at the age of 77. He was for many years a partner in the firm of Messrs.

Clayton, Sons and Fargus, the Institution's solicitors, and was the member of the firm who dealt with the...

The schooner Welcome Home, of Plymouth, was observed about 7 A.M. on the 19th November running for Hayle in an E.N.E. gale, and when attempting to cross the bar she stranded. The assembly signal for the Life-boat crew was at once fired, and...

Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.

He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...

GOLDEN CHARTER V FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended by the National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...

FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—A small sloop, which proved to be the Fanny, of Fishguard, was observed at 1 P.M. on the 30th September to be showing a signal of distress while at anchor, about a mileto the N.W. of Dinas Head. The -wind •was blowing...

A VALUABLE addition has recently been made to MANBY'S Mortar Life-Apparatus, by the ingenuity of Captain K. B. MARTIN, the well-known Harbour-Master of Rams- gate. That apparatus having been supplied by the Commissioners of Ramsgate...

IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...

LERWICK, January 4, 1988: when the Danish fishing vessel Setubal fouled her propeller on her own nets 65 miles east of Lerwick, no other vessel in the vicinity was available to take her in tow. Lerwick lifeboat launched at 1602, made the... - View image in PDF