LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...

By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.

THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.

Many'encounter...

Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting... - View image in PDF

AUGUST 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At about 4.30 P.M. the R.A.F., Chatham, reported an aircraft down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham. A moderate N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderatesea. The No. 1 motor...

ANYONE who has studied with care the transcript of evidence before the Sheriff's Court in Aberdeen, which investigated the causes of the capsize of the Fraserburgh life-boat last January, and the findings of the court itself, must be...

THIS year's competition, tie fifth to be held, proved, on the whole, still more successful than last year's, when the competition was revived after an inter- val of three years.

Nine hundred and forty-seven schools...

WE are indebted to THOMAS GRAY, Esq., the talented Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for the following interesting song adapted to the well-known music " Heart of Oak." Messrs. CHAPPELL of Bond...

When six teenagers fished into the early hours of a Summer morning, they suddenly became caught themselves

The group, aged 14–16, began night fishing from disused oyster beds at the north end of Langstone Harbour,...