LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the request of the General Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, HIS GRACE THE PRESIDENT has addressed the following important communication to its several Branches, inviting them anew to assist to carry on with unflagging...

TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...

BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Gorton Light-vessel on the llth February, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 6.30 P.M., during a moderate gale and a rough sea. As the wind was blowing directly into the...

MOTHER WAS DYING At 5.10 p.m. on 23rd July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the services of the life-boat to land a member of the Barrels lightvessel crew whose mother was dying. It was a fine day with a smooth sea and light airs...

AMONGST the many appliances which con- tribute to the safe navigation of a ship, none is of more importance than the small instrument termed " a log," by which the distance run can be approximately ascer- tained from day to day, or...

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LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. ...