LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SOUTHERN DISTRICT Torbay, Devon - At 3.35 p.m. on ist April, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Paignton. The IRB was launched at 3.47 in a moderate to fresh south by westerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water....

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.30 A.M.

on the 27th September, 1939, the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian steamer was ashore nearly fifty miles away; The weather was fine, with a light N.E. wind blowing. The motor...

Am I Too Late No, you can still commission A Portrait In Oil or select one of the Old Marine Masters The RNLI / Westcliff Gallery offer goes on until 1st April 1989. See the centre spread of October issue or phone or sendaSAEforfullbrochure....

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AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 22nd day of April, 1852, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the...

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IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...