LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 8.58 on the morning of the 28th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred between a tanker and a trawler off Point of Ayre. The tanker Auspicity of London had been...

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—On the evening of the 15th April one of the most exciting scenes ever remembered was witnessed at Whitby. The fishing fleet had left port early in the morning, the weather then being generally favourable.

Motor Boats and Motor Boating by Hilary and K. J. Wickham (Stanley Paul, 255) can be recommended as a clearly written and sensible guide to those who are planning to take to the water for their own pleasure. The book is directed to beginners...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.

It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...

KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...

JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a German aeroplane had bombed the Out Skerries Lighthouse, that one of the people on the lighthouse had been wounded, and that...

Difficult conditions as two casualties are taken from the shore The rescue of two people cut off by the tide in difficult and dangerous conditions has led to Sean Baxter, the helmsman of Staithes and Runswick's Atlantic 21 lifeboat,...

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