LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RAILWAYS STEAMERS HELP TO FIND FISHING BOAT St. Helier, Jersey. At 4.10 on the morning of the 30th August, 1962, the harbour office informed the honorary secretary that the 28-foot fishing boat Pinafore, which had put out with a crew of four...

INSPIRED BY CLASSIC ENCJLISH LANTERN CLOCKS OF THE 1600s, THE NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPONSORS THE INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CLOCK A Barometer, Thermometer, Compass and Clock - in a Superb Re-creation of an Antique Ship's...

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY DUTCH VESSEL AGROUND Margate, Kent. At 5.31 on the morning of the 16th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Viscount of Groningen needed help. Her position was not established,...

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 8.5 p.m. on gth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had anchored about half a mile off shore, just east of Swansea harbour breakwater, with her engine broken...

ARKLOW.—The Life-boat Out Pensioner put off at 10 A.M. on the 12th March to the assistance of the schooner Fanny, of and from Liverpool, bound for Africa with a general cargo, which was at anchor near the Porters Rocks, and striking the...

THREE motor life-boats have been built at Cowes, under the supervision of the Institution, for the Belgian Life-boat Service, which is maintained by the Ministry of Communications. All thre.e are Watson cabin boats, 46 feet 9 inches long, ...

For their work - the story of the rescue attempts that night took up over four pages of THE LIFE-BOAT for November, 1927 - a total of 38 medals and vellums were given together with medals from the Italian government of the...