LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aldeburgh and Southwold, Suffolk.— At about 8 A.M. on the 18th July, an explosion was observed on a large steamer abreast of Southwold, and it was reported that she had been tor- pedoed. As some of the crew were observed leaving the...

THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...

The Revue Maritime el Coloniale recently published a letter on the deviations to which the needle is liable in consequence of the substitution of iron for wood in ships.

One of the latest contrivances for diminishing this...

STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...

GREAT YARMOUTH.—Flares and rockets having been observed in the roadstead while a strong N. to N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 8th September, the Life-boat John Burch was launched at 9.35 P.M. and proceeded in the...

HILBRE ISLAND.—The Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 1.9 P.M., on the26th March, an intimation having been received that a vessel was driving on to the rocks. The weather at the time was misty, a whole gale of wind was blowing from...

At 4.35 A.M. on the 4th January a telephone message was received from the South- end coastguard that the trawler Nor- mandie had reported a vessel firing rockets one or two miles north of the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse, where very...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morning of the 5th October the coastguard reported a small sailing boat in difficulties about three miles S.E. of Clacton pier. She was the smack Arco, of Leigh-on-Sea, with six men on board. Her sails had been...