LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. W. DOUGLAS JOHNSTON, O.B.E., J.P., has been elected an HONORARY LIFE- GOVERNOR of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service both as a member of the local committee and as chairman...

THE VOLVO RANGE EXCLUSIVE SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS OF THE RYA AS AN RYA MEMBER YOU ARE ENTITLED TO EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS ON A NEW VOLVO SUPPLIED FROM HR OWEN. IN ADDITION TO THESE PRIVILEGED TERMS WE WILL ORGANISE A TEST DRIVE FOR YOU AT YOUR...

WE are gratified in being able to make public the following instructions for the guidance of those who being themselves able to swim, may have opportunity to go to the aid of their drowning fellow creatures.

The writer of...

Keith lli:ih hn, the ItNIJ's Senior Naval Arrhitn t. looks :it lifeboat development over the past 175 v. rs, Modern lifeboats are highly sophisticated craft with unique features which enable them to survive when lesser craft would be in...

Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...

RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.

Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...

AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.

Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...

When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.

It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...