LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR THE first time, we are introducing two items which we hope will be more than souvenirs and fall into the category of suitable gifts. For men, there is an attractive set of hand-made cuff-links with the R.N.L.I. motif in gilt and enamel...

Early on the morning of the 10th March three local motor fishing cobles put to sea to haul crab pots. The wind was squally from the S.E., and the sea was rough. The weather continued to grow worse, with heavy rain showers. At 10.30 A.M. the...

Many years ago there was the-launching of the Mumbles/hearse Before the boathouse and slipway were built, the RNLI owned two horses to haul the Mumbles boat on a carriage over the wide mud flats into the water. One day the local undertaker...

CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE AUXILIARIES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This iliustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat.

Many other winches of...

RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, WALMER, and KINGSDOWNE.—These Life-boats, which are so frequently called out to assist the crews of vessels wrecked on the* fatal Goodwin Sands, were instrumental last year in performing the following services to...

RAMSGATE.—At midnight, on the 12th of February, during a moderate S.E. wind and thick weather, signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Bradford Life-boat put off in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, proceeded to the North Sand...

Again, on the 11th January last, the Ramsgate life-boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Vulcan to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Zephyr, of Banff, which was totally wrecked on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The wind was strong...

DONNA NOOK.—The Swedish barque Infatigable, laden with deals and boards for Hall, was seen flying distress signals, having lost her fore and main masts during squally weather and in a rough sea on the 22nd October. The signal gun having been...