LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.

Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...

(including postage &. pac Empires of the ancient near east is the definitive, lavishly illustrated chronicle of the four monumental civilisations that prospered between the end of the Stone Age and the advent of Hellenistic...

NOV. 26TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea. The life-boat, other vessels and aircraft searched for her, but nothing could be found. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards,...

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1957, the coxswain was told that a fishing- vessel had wirelessed that a small sailing craft was ashore near the King's Scar buoy and that her crew were waving for help...

The Old Steam Life-Boat "Queen" Ready To Leave For The Gold Coast. - View image in PDF

SEA-SAFETY EQUIPMENT We hold stocks of all the flares and distress signals now compulsory for yachts.

Also lifebuoys, safety belts, kapok cushions, bells, whistles fire-extinguishers, first-aid cases and a complete range Of...

Can you imagine what life might have been like 200 years ago for children in the 19th century (1800-1899)? II was a lime when everything depended on how rich Iheir parents were. The government did little to help the poor who were trying to...

TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tremendous sea running, she failed in doing so,...