LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The United States (State Service.

Established 1848).

Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...

The brig Eliza Emma, of Shoreham.

while entering Hartlepool, at about 7 P.M., on the 14th February, during a moderateS.S.E. gale, accompanied by a very heavy sea, ran ashore on the Beacon Eocks, owing to the thickness of...

Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...

Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...

" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.

I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...

COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.

Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...

• Sea Rescue by Gardner Soule (Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia) is written by a journalist and brings an urgent, exciting interest to a wide range of dramatic sea stories. Ranging from the recovery of splashed-down spacemen to broken...