LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.

THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...

ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...

Competitive Home Insurance If you are aged 50 or over Saga Home Insurance is worth looking into. With so much included as standard, plus a range of excellent additional options, you can choose the Buildings and Contents cover that really...

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES Maritime Buoyage System A A COMBINED CARDINAL AND LATERAL SYSTEM, RED TO PORT To be introduced in North West European and many other waters by stages, starting April 1977 FROM APRIL NEXT...

OCTOBER 11TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported three tugs, with floating cranes in tow, dragging their anchors in St. Ives Bay, and drifting towards the Stones Reef, off Godrevy Point....

South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...

PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES.—At about 9.30 A.M. on the 6th November, signals of distress were shown by the screw flat Llysfaen, of Liverpool, during a N. gale and a heavy sea. The George Moore Life-boat put off to her assistance, and was...

THE Blue Book recently issued by the Board of Trade furnishing abstracts of the shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st July, 1903, to the 30th June, 1904, is not less inter- esting than...