LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...

CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE AUXILIARIES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This iliustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat.

Many other winches of...

EVINRUDE THE CHOICE OF PROFESSIONALS On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are....

DECEMBER 17TH. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.

At 4.20 in the afternoon a call was received from a vessel in distress off Beer Head. A strong south-south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...

DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...

DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...

THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...

A SUBSCRIBER in Quebec, in sending his annual gift of £5 wrote: "It may be of interest to you to know that when a boy I was employed by a firm here which every summer shipped by sailing vessels to Great Britain, many cargoes of...