LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Annual Meeting. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, St., Chairman of the Institution. Amount collected in 1932 £244, as compared with £184 in 1931.

Visit of new Skegness Motor...

Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.

—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...

AT 11.45 P.M. on the 14th January, 1938, the civic guard at Tramore, Co.

Waterford, reported that lights had been seen at sea, possibly from a ship in distress. The crew of the motor life-boat C. and S. was assembled, but a...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a ship had run ashore two hundredyards east of Beeston Regis. At 7.15 the life-boat Forester's Centenary was launched....

The ability of a modern lifeboat to self-right after a capsize is a valuable safety feature, but just how is this achieved? Mike Floyd sets out to explain the principles behind a modern self-righting lifeboat without recourse to diagrams or...

Steeley determination! A donation of £25,000 was recently presented to John Clugston, chairman of the South Bank Committee Humber lifeboat appeal by Stuart Pettifor, managing director of British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial...

Five men in a boat Tomost people, the idea of rowing across the Irish Sea is incomprehensible, and it was with a degree of trepidation that five amateurs set out at 0330 on Saturday 27 May from Holyhead to tackle the feat and raise money for...

Cromer and Penlee.

THE new Cromer Motor Life-boat is the third of the Norfolk and Suffolk type to be constructed, the other two being the boats stationed at Walton-on-Naze and Lowestoft. The second of these two boats, the...