LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In answer to signals fired from the North Float Lightship, the No. 2 Life-boat was launched at 11.45 on the 16th March, and proceeded to the Hasborough Sands, where she found the barque Scotia, of Sunderland, bound from Newcastle to Villa...

DURING the past six years the Institution has placed Motor Caterpillar Tractors at a number of Stations, where they have been successfully used, instead of horses, for launching Lifeboats off flat sandy beaches, but they are not suitable for...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...

Early on the 14th February, three local fishing boats put out to fish off Brims Ness.

At 8 A.M. a sudden N.E. gale broke, with heavy snow and sleet. The sea was very rough. As the boats were on a lee shore it was decided to...

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

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Contents Volume XLVIII Number 478 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MM Editor: JOAN DAVIES Notes of the Quarter National Service for Seafarers, St Paul's Cathedral Lifeboat Services Naming...

Aberdeen, Grampian March 7.

Aith, Shetland April 23.

Angle, Dyfed May 11 and 14.

Baltimore, Co. Cork April 8.

Barra Island, Western Isles March 22 and April 10.