LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 54 Lives rescued 76

DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...

THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...

THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...

V.—MARGATE.

The Quiver, No. I.

This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.

A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...

IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...

EVERYTHING that concerns the moral welfare and improvement of the sailor is of primary importance to a Maritime Power, such as that of the British Empire. Her strength and her commercial prosperity are alike dependent on her strength at sea,...

Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.40 in the afternoon of the 1st of April 1952, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship lying at anchor three and a half miles east- north-east of Mablethorpe appeared to be flying a distress signal,...

Time and time again comes the news that a branch or guild has passed all its previous achievements. There is Swansea which, with special efforts for Jubilee year, raised a record of £3,214. Then, at Lymington, the branch and guild...