LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 17TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW. Red lights had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10.

A Balloon Race THE Heston, Isleworth, and Brentford and Chiswick branch of the Institu- tions has held a very successful bazaar.

One of its attractions was a toy balloon race, the third which the branch has arranged. The...

The recent sad accidents at Lytham and at Rhyl, by the upsetting of the life-boats stationed at these two places, are so calculated to destroy confidence in all life-boat: among those unacquainted with the exact circumstances of the case,...

• 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...

WHEN the character of the services performed by the life-boats, and the dangers and diffi- culties which they have to encounter, are taken into consideration, it is rather matter for astonishment that they do not frequently fail in effecting...

[NT the Times newspaper of the 20th of February last, we read the following narration of a deplorable occurrence by which industrious men were deprived of life, and their families, all in indigent circumstances, left in sorrow to struggle...

BUDEHAVEN, CORNWALL.—On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of...

Ranugate, Kent.—During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the...