LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue Call
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., died suddenly on 3Oth May, 1966, at the age of 53. Professor Pask was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
HIS LIFE AND...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—A new Life- boat has been placed here, one of the 34 feet 10-oared class having been substi- tuted for the smaller boat at this Station.
The new Life-boat is named the Oliver Qoldsmith, it having...
Category: Articles
Antoinette
PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...
Vixen
About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...
New Ways of Raising Money
A COLLECTION in aid of the Institution was made at the Silverstone Inter- national Trophy meeting on the 15th of May by kind permission of the Daily Express and the British Racing Drivers' Club. A total of £131 7s....
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Category: Services
A Small Motor Boat
5th September. A small motor boat was in difficulties, but her occupants got away in another boat.—Rewards, £4 10s..
A Barge (1)
27th Feb- ruary. A barge had had her topsail blown away, but did not want help.— Rewards, £14 11s..
Overladen and Unseaworthy Ships
THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.
THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...
Category: Articles