LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 6.50 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed by the honorary medical adviser of a message from the commanding officer of H.M. submarine Trump that the submarine was...

OCTOBER 9TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

A British bomber aeroplane had been reported in the sea eighteen miles S.E. of Douglas, which would make her 39 miles from Moelfre, but it was found that the lifeboat was not needed and she...

Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF

THE R. N.L.I, this year is offering six attractive life-boat Christmas cards. Buying life-boat cards, calendars and gifts is an easy and effective way of helping the life-boat service.

Although an informative leaflet,...

We take pride in the fact that we supply COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I.

FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses HENRY BROWNE & SON...

The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...

JANUARY 20TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.

At 11.43 A.M. a report was received from the police, through the coastguard, that a fishing boat was in need of help about two miles north of the harbour, and the motor life-boat Lily Glen,...

ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...