LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The bar- quentine Erik Ojessen, of Skudescae, whilst bound from Haugesund to Leith in ballast, stranded about two and a half miles south of Newburgh on the 29th October. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing at the time, but the sea j was very...

THE Model Engineer Exhibition very kindly gave the Institution space for a display when it was held this year at the Horticultural Hall from August the 9th to the 19th. The Institution showed models of the first lifeboat, a pulling and...

CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th August, 1953, a message was received that two boats were in difficulties off Ireland's Eye. At 4.15 the life-boat R.P.L.

was launched, with the bowman...

Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1957, the Cockburnspath coastguard telephoned a report that a canoe had capsized about four hundred yards from the beach just north of Cock- burnspath. At 2.40 the...

Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard to keep a catamaran under observation.

As the weather was becoming rapidly worse and the boat could not be...

Ix a former number of this Journal we have recorded that 36,000 fishing-boats, employ- ing 150,000 men and boys, are annually engaged in the fisheries of the United King- dom. In the April number will be found some statistics of the Herring...

• Published to coincide with the Institution's 150th Anniversary, The Life-boat Service by Oliver Warner (Cassell, London, £4.50) is the authoritative account of the RNLI. Mr Warner has had access to all of its papers, and has...