LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

He’s engineered glorious victories for the best drivers in the world – and now Ross Brawn’s formula for success is helping the RNLI build a new lifeboat.

Ross Brawn is no stranger to spending hours watching teams pit their...

Ix the early hours of the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel began to drift. The first man on shore to have any suspicion that something might be amiss with the lightvessel was the Deal coastguard, who...

ON 21st January, 1970, Fraserburgh life-boat capsized with the loss of five members of her crew. There was only one survivor, Mr. Jackson Buchan. On 25th March Mr. Goronwy Roberts, Minister of State, Board of Trade, stated in the House of...

Jan. 1.—Six fishermen rescued fifteen of the crew of the barque Faulconnier, of Dun- kirk, which was wrecked at Travara, near Courtmacsherry, in hazy weather, a strong E.S.E. wind and rough sea. The men had taken to their boats, but it was...

Obituaries It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: April 1987 Captain Olaf Bjornstad, ex-Secretary General of the Norwegian Lifeboat Society. He was appointed an honorary life governor of the RNLI in...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the motor trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, which had a crew of five, had broken down four miles south-east of Blasket Island. At...

FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the morning of the 20th February, 1962, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that a French fishing vessel with her trawl net entangled in her propeller needed help south of...

Dedication of The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and of Guide Friendship II at Eastney.SIR ALEC ROSE took part in the dedication of both Atlantic 21 The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston on July 29 and of...