LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE VALUE OF WIRELESS Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.8. in the even- ing of the 15th of April, 1947, the Selsey coastguard reported that on the previous evening a motor launch with a small boat in tow had anchored one and a half miles south of Shelley...

• The Hovercat Mk. 2 multipurpose amphibious hovercraft (Hovermarine Transport Ltd., Hazel Wharf, Hazel Road, Woolston, Southampton) has a wide range of roles.

The Hovercat depicted above is fitted out for casualty...

The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...

As cruising yachtsmen most of us will go through life without needing a lifeboat.

Growing experience, natural caution and a healthy respect for the sea backed up with good safety equipment should see us through. But the...

NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...

Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.

Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...

ON the afternoon of 12th August a message was received at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Station, that a sailingboat had capsized about a mile and a half from the shore, off Fort Victoria.

A moderate gale was blowing, and the...

IT will be remembered that in September, 1890, the Steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was stationed at Harwich for the purpose of experiment. There she gained golden opinions from her crew.

Between September, 1890, and...