LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At about noon on the 7th December it was reported that a schooner was close to the Brake Sands and that her square sails had blown away, and that she was' in difficulties. When near to the edge of the Sand the vessel tried to stay, but...

MARCH 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

An unknown steamer had been reported heading for rocks east of the harbour, but she seemed to get clear and then was lost in the darkness. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d.

—• The Life- boat Queensbury was engaged more or less continuously from the 25th until the 30th December in connexion with the s s. Gallier, of London, which struck a mine on the former date when off Scarborough. The steamer, which was a...

Longhope, Orkneys-At 7.44p.m. on ist April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v.

Trust of Stromness was ashore at Haven, Stroma Island, Pentland Firth, and required the assistance of the life...

WHEN diesel engines were first fitted into a life-boat in 1932 a new policy was adopted which was to be of the greatest importance in the history of life-boat construction. Just how im- portant this development has been isshown by the fact...

THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.

Although the Society ("...

TRUST VOLVO TO LAUNCH A CAR LIKE THIS.

A car with an airbag and pre-tensioners as standard. A car with advanced side impact protection. A car with a rigid steel safety cage. A car you can believe in. (Oh yes, and a car you...

AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...