LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...

Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....

Early on the morning of the 23rd March three boys put out from the harbour in a small boat and headed up the Bristol Channel.

When about half a mile out they tried to put about and return but were unable to do so, as a...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.32 on the early morning of the 27th of November, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground half a mile west of Jury's Gap. At 12.42 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a...

Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF

Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...

SOME time since a system of securing the buoyancy of fishing-cobles by means of air cases, so fitted as not to impede the fishermen when following their calling, yet, at the same time, to render the cobles unsinkable, was introduced by the...

Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 6.30 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a sailing dinghj had capsized half a mile east of Cullercoats harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat Isaac andMary Bolton was...