LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Rear-Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

INFORMATION about the weather, or respecting instruments available for popular use, as indicators of changes in our ever-varying atmosphere, has been extensively diffused daring late years,...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—14th October, 1939. After rescuing three lives from the barge Esterel, of London, the life-boat went out to the barge Vampa, of London, but her crew were drowned.—Rewards, £10 16s..

TO LIGHTVESSEL Wicklow. At 6.45 p.m. on 2ist June, 1965, Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Codling Bank lightvessel as his mother was seriously ill. This was...

WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...

THE Life-boat Saturday workers have required to use all their energy and zeal during the past year in pressing on their campaign on behalf of the fund. What with the South African War, and an increased Income Tax, followed by Peace...

ENGLISH AND DANISH FISHING BOATS IN DISTRESS Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—At half-past one in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, information was telephoned from Whitby to Runs- wick that the fishing boat Gem, belong- ing...

SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...

Abersoch, Gwynedd September 13, October 15 and 25 Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 1, October 14 and 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 9 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 2, 5 (three times), 15 and November 4...