LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...

BROKEN SHAFT At 5.46 p.m. on i4th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was flying distress signals about half a mile off Westgate bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. TJ) was launched at 6.5 in...

CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...

Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...

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WITH a view to the interchange of ideas and suggestions as to the " Life-boat Saturday" movement, a conference took place in the rooms of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, on the afternoon of the 2nd May. Representatives were present...

Ireland Division Fishing boat sinks ROSSLARE HARBOUR PORT AUTHORITY informed the deputy launching authority at 2220 on Saturday, June 19, that MFV Hopeful with two men on board was taking water and sinking rapidly in a position about two...

DORNOCH FIRTH AND EMBO.—Signals of distress having been seen on the evening of the 20th January, the Life-boat Daisie was launched, and found the Come On, an open fishing-boat belonging to Gardenstown, Port of Banff, with a crew of six men,...