LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Oil rig aground ST PETER PORT SIGNALS STATION received an 'all ships' warning at about 1900 on Wednesday, February 1, 1978, saying that, at 1850, Orion had parted from the German tug Seefalke in position 49°39'N,...

IN an article dealing with the Board of Trade returns of the shipping disasters during the year ended 30th June, 1903, a newspaper, whilst showing much appreciation of the work done by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION, and in a...

PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...

SINCE the publication of the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, terrible disas- ters have befallen the crews of the Life- boats at Southport and St. Anne's, on the coast of Lancashire, the full details of which are given in the...

Regular customers at the "Rising Sun" in the City of London are expected to carry with them certain unusual coins which they are known to possess. If they fail to produce them fines are imposed, and in this way the landlord, Mr. F....

5O years ago From the pages of the LIFEBOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 7 of March 1942 30 MONTHS OF WAR In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4630 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last...

THE machinery of modern civilization is so complicated, and moves, withal, so smoothly and silently, that the majority of people never give a thought to its intricacies, or to the constant effort and strain which the smooth working...

WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.

In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...