On the 20th August, at daylight, a small vessel, which afterwards proved to be the smack Hope, of Dublin, was observed to be on shore on the Horse Bank at the entrance to the Mersey. The Southport life-boat, in con- nection with the NATIONAL...
No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
Category: Articles
A Severn class lifeboat sets out on another rescue mission.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above!. The sophisticated fibre reinforced composite (FRC) construction gives light weight with strength, but needs much planning at the design stage.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
OF all the Blue Books printed year by year for " Her Majesty's Stationery Office," probably not one communicates such deeply interesting information as that to be found in the volume containing the elaborate Tables drawn up and...
Category: Articles
The Lady Provost of Glasgow, Mrs Ann Irons, draws the winning ticket in the Scottish Region for a Volvo car. Standing beside her is His Grace the Duke of Atholl, convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 16th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat C.E. 44 was overdue. A later message said that she had last been seen one mile off the Royal...
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
At 1 A.M.
on the 15th October it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the north beach. The rocket apparatus turned out and endeavoured to effect communication from the shore, but the vessel was too far off, and they...
BEFORE concluding this subject, a few comparative notes as to cost, size, weight, &c., of the Life-boats under dis- cussion may prove of interest.
Taking the matter of cost first. It is difficult to assign the exact...
Category: Articles