LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.

The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...

WITH THE DEATH of Lord Saltoun, the RNLI has lost one of its most devoted supporters. His main interest was not so much in technical matters such as boats and methods of communication, but in the people who worked for the Institution, its...

THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...

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...

Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — On Sunday, the 3rd of December, 1950, the S.S. Inverpool, of London, a tanker of 600 tons laden with oil fuel, ran on a sandbank on the south side of the River Ribble. At 4.4 in the afternoon the Formby...

ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...

A Woman From The Norwegian Tanker Nora Being Helped Ashore From Eastbourne Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

WITHIN the last twelve months four remarkable cases of the stranding of large steamships have taken place on our shores, each of such vessels carrying a numerous crew besides a considerable number of passengers. Two of these steamers in the...