LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southampton Boat Show The eleventh Southampton International Boat Show was opened by Sir Alec Rose on Monday September 17 in brilliant sunshine, and in the week that followed all exhibitors reported business beyond their expectations: orders...

It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...

THE following graphic account of a recent noble service performed by the Ramsgate Life-boat is extracted from a work just published, entitled "Storm Warriors."* We hail the appearance of this interesting book with considerable...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools was held this year for the thirteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,207, as compared with 2,249 in 1932. But though there was a decline...

A century after the old Boarhills private lifeboat fell into disuse the station was visited by Broughty Ferry's Arun and D class lifeboats.

The Arun's Y-boat is pictured in the entrance to the old boathouse - no... - View image in PDF

Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...

Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.

Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...

FRANCE.

THE " Annales du Sauvetage Maritime," the journal of the Societe Centrale de Sanvetage des Naufrages, for the last quarter of 1913 shows that the Society has granted rewards for the saving of 21,275...