LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The cobles were off fishing on the 2nd April in a E.N.E. breeze when the sea commenced to grow and rendered their return very dangerous. In the absence of the coxswain with the fishermen, the signal- man of the Life-boat James Oowland very...

The Hoylake Life-boat was again afloat on service on the 25th September on the occasion of the flat Catharine, of Liver-pool, going ashore about a mile from the Life-boat Station daring a whole gale from the north and a very heavy...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—2nd January, 1939. A flying-boat had been reported down and in distress, but later it was learned that she was safely at anchor, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.—Rewards, £16 5s. 6d..

MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported...

SCHOOLS FOR SAILORS.* THIRD ARTICLE.

IN completion of what I have before said, while advocating the claims of sailors upon public aid for special instruction, I will now only make a few supplementary remarks upon the...

R.N.L.I., rely on Mermaid T THE NEW ROTHER CLASS LIFEBOATS, as those already in service like the Margate Lifeboat shown here, rely on Mermaid diesel engines for continuous trouble-free power in every emergency. You need reliability too, so...

On the 15th March the steamer Hayle, of Penzance, while making the harbour on the morning's tide, stranded on the eastern side of the bar. A strong W.N.W.

wind was blowing at the time, and when it was seen that all...

Three men were rescued on the 12th January in a strong southerly gale by the Life-boat Sarah Brooshfft, Kirk Ella, after having passed the night on a beacon on a rock upwards of three miles from the shore.

It appeared that...