LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TANKER ON FIRE Eastbourne and Newhaven, Sussex.

At 8.5 a.m. on 2yth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Eastbourne and Newhaven lifeboat stations that the Liberian tanker Otto N. Miller of...

100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...

Lifeboat Services (from page 165) Shetland Islands, that she was aground on Bressay Island in heavy seas and needed help. The Coastguard were already on the telephone to the honorary secretary of Lerwick lifeboat, who asked that maroons be...

As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...

Howard Richings continues his tour of the RNLI's lifeboat stations It's an ill wind that blows no good. 1998 certainly began in fine style if one was into windsurfing, whereas in January 1997 it would have required an icebreaker to...

Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.

The ceremony was held at...

THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...

THE COAST OF NORTH WALES JS QUJCt at the beginning of April with the storms of winter mainly over and the summer still to come. The weather can change in a few moments from bright sunshine to strong hail storms which bombard the magnificent...