LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...

Guyana has become the latest location to suffer flooding - and the RNLI was there to help. Around the world it has been a year of huge waves and violent storms. Thousands lost their lives in the Indian Ocean tsunami while, at home, hurricane...

INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW Three hundred and twenty-one new members enrolled at the Association desk at the International Boat Show. This was an encouraging start for the New Year and it was particularly gratifying to note that over 80 per cent...

The Old Steam Life-Boat "Queen" Ready To Leave For The Gold Coast. - View image in PDF

CUMBERLAHD.—On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of distress flying. In a very short time the...

Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...

On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...

GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS 2007 Departure Dates and Prices First Class Rail Travel 9 Apr £1,150 23, 30 Apr £1,250 7,21,28 May £1,250 4,11,18,25Jun £1,250 2,9, 23, 30 Jul £1,250 6,13 Aug £1,150 20, 27 Aug £1,250...