LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Twenty-one of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 17th April when a heavy ground swell got up and increased as the tide ebbed, making it quite unfit for the cobles to take the harbour. Between 8 and 9 A.M.

the fishing...

TILE Committee of Management heard with very great regret of the sudden death on April 6th of their colleague Captain Ernest William Swan, C.R.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R. Captain Swan Ix-came a member of the Committee in 1939, and brought to...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and...

r, NOBTHITHBKBIIAND. — Oa the 4th November at 6 P.M. the assistant coxswain of the Life-boat saw the lights of a steamer upon the rocks at Hadstone, The crew of the Algernon and Eleanor Life-boat were at once summoned, horses were obtained,...

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LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.

When not in use the net of the...

A 33FT BREDE class lifeboat, 33-02, is now at Oban undergoing station evaluation trials.

The Brede is a new type of lifeboat based on a commercial GRP hull. As a result of initial development work her wheelhouse has been...

At 11.22 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been an explosion on board a fishing vessel. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 11.38 in a smooth sea. The tide was flooding....