LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...

Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...

Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...

When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …

Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...

Letters of Gratitude.

AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...

HOLYHEAD.—The three-masted brigantine Emerald, of Liverpool, was seen flying a signal of distress during a strong 8. gale and a rough sea on the morning of the 13th December. The Life-boat Thomas' Fielden was launched to the assistance...

A 2-year interactive exhibition on search and rescue has opened at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.

We’ve loaned the museum a B class lifeboat, a lifeguard all-terrain vehicle and a range of collection...

Thursday, 9th November, 1933.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Co-opted Captain the Right Hon. Charles C. Craig, Mr. Norman Clark Neill, and Lieut.- Col. F. Rayner, D.S.O., T.D., as members of the...