LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...

THE first three months of 1958 have offered striking evidence of the help given by life-boats to a great variety of vessels serving the commerce of the country in different ways and, in particular, to fishing boats. Of the 106 launches by...

.—A gale sprang up on the morning of the 26th November, from the S.S.W., and later backed to the southward, and increased in force. Two small cobles were seen making for the harbour, and a larger coble went off and assisted them into safety....

On the night of the 30th December, signals of distress were seen burning from a vessel off this place.

The wind was blowing fresh from the East, and a heavy sea running. The Parsee life- boat put off and assisted, after ten...

NORTH DEAL.—In response to the signals fired by the light-ships, and a vessel burning large flares on the Goodwin Sands, the Mary Somerville Life-boat was launched at about 2.30 A.M. on the 15th May, during a N.N.E. wind and a heavy sea. The...

Four days afterwards the boat again did good service. The brig. E. J. D. of Nantes, was driven by the tempestuous weather on a lee shore, and was at length forced to run for Scarborough Harbour.

In making the attempt,...

ANSTRUTHER.—On the 9th November, the Admiral Fitzroy Life-boat rescued the crew, consisting of 4 men, from the s.s.

Dryad, of Glasgow. The vessel was on a voyage from Montrose to Campbeltown, with barley, and when near the...

Two fishing-cobles, with three men in each, were observed making for this harbour at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April.

A strong E. gale had suddenly sprung up, causing a heavy sea on the bar, and the boats were in great danger...