LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Laura, Countess of Antrim, Life-boat, saved 7 men from the brigantine Amanda, of Cole- raine, on the morning of the 3rd October, during a heavy gale from N.W. This was a truly noble service, and tested to the utmost the endurance of the...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

PORT ERROLL, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th July a dense fog, which had prevailed about eight hours, lifted and disclosed a vessel close in shore at Whinnyfold, South of Crnden Scars, and apparently on the...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself...

The westerly gale on the 18th February was one of the fiercest experienced at Stornoway for a long period, and the squalls at times attained hurricane force.

About 4.45 P.M. information was re- ceived that a fishing lugger,...

Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.

and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...

On the evening of the 13th February, Coxswain Robert Leece observed that a schooner, which had been lying in Douglas Outer Harbour for 'some days windbound, was flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched,...