LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON 17th December, 1938, a S.E. by E. gale was blowing at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, with, flurries of sleet.

An extremely heavy sea was running, and was breaking heavily far outside the harbour. Half an hour after midday a...

SEPT. 10TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

While bound for Newcastle the S.S. Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by a U-boat off Aldeburgh. Information reached the lifeboat station...

THE " season " of the Life-boat Saturday Collections throughout the country opened this year under very favourable auspices, and the Committees, greatly encouraged by the excellent certificate recently given to the movement by the...

IN the autumn number of The Life-boat Clovelly appeared in the list of launches in July, 1950, in which no services were done.

There was, in fact, a service. At 9.15 on the night of the 8th, the Hart- land Point coastguard...

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. . . if proof were necessary A wide range of Radio The fact that every life-boat in the Royal National Telephones, Loud Hailers, T • • i r • • n ...

We take pride in the fact that we supply COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I.

FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses HENRY BROWNE & SON...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—While bound for Newcastle the oil tanker Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by enemy action off Aldeburgh on 10thSeptember, 1939. Information reached the life-boat station...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...