LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
• Medical Aid at Accidents, by Roger Snook, MD (Update Publications, £5.75) is probably the only comprehensive book on the subject and covers all types of incident from under water to mountain top, though naturally the accent is on road...
Category: Articles
Tribute to the Brave
Tribute to the brave The day of the annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall ends with an after-theatre supper at the Rubens Hotel for all the medallists and their families. Mrs Anne Wall has very generously made this...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
Category: Articles
Letters
In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
Category: Correspondence
The Rnli In Ireland By Edward Wake-Walker
There are 24 lifeboat stations around the coast of Ireland. Provisional figures for 1986 show that their 26 lifeboats (Dun Laoghaire and Howth have both D class and fast afloat lifeboats) launched 181 times rescuing 98 lives. The RNLI's...
Category: Articles
A Dutch Life-Boat Service
THOSE who were in London during the centenary celebrations of the Institution in July, 1924, will remember seeing on the Thames the Dutch Twin-screw Motor Life-boat Brandaris, which is just two inches longer than our largest type—the 60-foot...
Category: Services
The Fund Raisers
Coffee mates Pupils from Derwentwater Infants School, all aged between five and six years old, ran a parents' coffee morning last November, baking cakes and serving their guests themselves. Parents jumped at the chance to be served by...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
FRASERBURGH, N.B. — On the 25th August one of the most severe storms ever experienced at this season of the year prevailed here. A report had been circulated among the fishermen on the previous day that a storm was at hand, and on that day...
Danny and Ness
FIREMAN TAKEN TO LEAKING TUG Caister, Norfolk. At 6.50 on the morning of the 21st April, 1962, the crew of a fishing boat came ashore to report that flares had been fired from two vessels about three miles northeast- by-north from Caister....
A Cabin Cruiser
LIFE-BOATS AND HELICOPTER IN LONG SEARCH Beaumaris, Anglesey; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 8.32 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Beaumaris honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down off...