LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 11 A.M. on the 12th April the Coastguard reported that a schooner in the Margate Roads was flying distress signals. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was at once summoned and the boat launched.

When she was...

H.M. Mine Sweeper • stranded on the Scroby Sands during a strong southerly gale on the 28th October. She made signals of distress, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched. While endeavouring to get near...

WE print below a list of the results of the Life-boat Days which have been held since the last list was published in the August number of The Life-Boat. Yeovil Comments on the results of this year's Special Efforts will be found in "...

NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.

Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibe., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

At 4.30 A.M. on the 25th April the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to the assistance of a vessel apparently on the Cross Sand. On the arrival of the boat they found the vessel was the steamer North Gwalia, of London, laden -with...

The s.s. Kossuth Ferencz, of Piume, whilst bound from Nicolaieffto Hull with a cargo of wheat, collided with another vessel when near the Haisboro' Sands on the 15th June.

After the collision the vessel stranded on the...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...