LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Gorleston No. 1 Life-' boat Mark Lane was launched at 11.55 P.M. on the 28th October in response to signals of distress from the Corton Light-vessel. When proceeding to her, flares were seen on a drifter near the Sands, and the...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.25 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1951, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler Loch Fleet, of Aberdeen, through the Cullercoats radio station. She was making...

At 3.30 P.M. on the 24th January information was received that a four - masted barque — the Cedarbank, of Tvedestrand—was ashore on the Long Sand, and that two agents were anxious to get to the vessel as she was in want of assistance. As the...

On the 19th March the schooner Gravesend, of London, whilst bound from Dunkirk to London with a cargo of coal, got into difficulties close to the Goodwin Sands, owing to her anchors not holding. In response to her signals of distress the...

THE 37th Annual Meeting of the [ Committee of this Fund was held on the 18th ultimo, the Chair being occupied by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary Secretary, stated that the Fund had fully maintained...

Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...

Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Lifeboat Numbers...

There is a logic to the numbers seen on the side of lifeboats, and once you've cracked the code the combination can tell you...

IN the 19th Number of this Journal we replied to the various theoretical objections that had been advanced against the selfrighting principle, and demonstrated that the same means which were employed to produce that effect contributed to the...