LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...

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Hurricane force 12 STORM FORCE WINDS, gusting to hurricane force 12 from the west south west, were sweeping the west coast of Scotland on the morning of Thursday March 20, 1986, when the Troon pilot heard over his radio that the fishing...

THE mortar and rocket apparatus around the coasts of the United Kingdom, as stated in an early number of this Journal, is for the most part under the charge of the Coast- guard, who have frequently performed in- valuable services with it,...

Galway Bay, Galway.—At 6 P.M. on the 1st August, 1939, a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with...

I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.

ITS the December Number of this Journa it was stated that several additional Life boat Stations had been formed, and new boats built to replace old ones.

In addition to those previously enume- rated, we have the...

Snatched from rocks A MAYDAY CALL received from the 17' bermudan sloop Calcutta Princess was reported by Trevose Head Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 1709 on Sunday July 17, 1977. The yacht, a quarter...