LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Salcombe, Devonshire.— The motor trawler Tarascon, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks in Steeple Cove at about 10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1938. Her wireless was put out of order when she struck, and she had no rockets. There was a very heavy...

COMMANDER EDWARD DUMERGUE DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., late chief inspector of life-boats, died on the 24th of January at the age of 72.

He was the elder son of Dr. Drury, Bishop of Ripon, was educated at Merchant...

The standard hull of the Dell Quay dory, referred to on page 464, has been used in the R.N.L.I.'s new experimental boat, but it has been strengthened to enable it to take the steering console.

The hull is of composite...

Team Philips is towed to safety Pete Goss' attempt to break the Jules Verne record for the fastest non-stop circumnavigation hit a stumbling block during sea trials on 29 March when his catamaran. Team Philips, lost part of her...

SEPTEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.40 in the evening the Tara coastguard reported a steamer on the Long Rock, at South Rock, and the motor lifeboat Herbert John was launched at 7.8 P.M.

The coxswain was asked to...

"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1871, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...

SHIPS have always been a favourite subject for stamps. Yet among this multipli- city of stamps concerned with the sea, comparatively little attention has been paid to that very necessary aspect of life at sea, namely, the life-boats which...