LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HUNA.—On the 8th August the Norwegian barque Minerva, in trying to pass through the Sound between the Pentland Skerries and South Ronaldshay during a fresh breeze from the S.W., was carried by the strong current to the north side of the...

Barra Island, Hebrides.—During a whole S.E. gale on the morning of the 15th December, 1938, the steamer Dorothy, of Glasgow, dragged her moorings in Castlebay Harbour and was driven on to the rocks on the west side of the harbour. She was in...

Engine broken down ON TUESDAY, MAY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station at 1337 that a motor yacht, Jondee of Saundersfoot, was in trouble 300-400 yards off Lydstep Head, some five miles west of the...

FEW PEOPLE are fortunate enough to work in offices with such a beautiful view as some Head Office staff are enjoying while in temporary accommodation at Poole Quay. The harbour at Poole, which is said to be the second largest natural harbour...

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THE great difficulty in the way of prompt Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses.

It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they have frequently to...

THE number of valuable lives lost every year by drowning is a fact not sufficiently realised, or it would certainly receive greater attention than it at present ap- pears to do.

During every summer, distressing ac- counts...

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The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...