LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...

BOY AND YACHT IN DOUBLE RESCUE Lowestoft, Suffolk. The honorary secretary received a report from the coastguard during the afternoon of Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, that a boy was drowning off Pakefield beach. The lifeboat Frederick Edward...

Howard Richings continues his tour of the RNLI's lifeboat stations It's an ill wind that blows no good. 1998 certainly began in fine style if one was into windsurfing, whereas in January 1997 it would have required an icebreaker to...

Grounded ferry Girvan's all weather lifeboat launched in gale force winds to assist the grounded passenger ferry European Highlander on 8 January 2005. Second Coxswain Dave Butcher commented: 'I have never experienced such hostile...

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Body Plan. Midship Section.

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these...

To interest the youth of our nation in the sea that encompasses their island— its traffic, its secrets, its hazards—is always timely. To do so in the manner of Malcolm Saville's book, The Adven- ture of the Life-boat Semice (Macdonald,...

JUNE MEETING PORTREATH, CORNWALL. At 9.10 in the morning of the 7th January, 1942, a coastguard saw a rubber dinghy in the sea one and a half miles N.W. of Portreath look-out.

A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...

OUTSTANDING services in which courage and skilled seamanship were displayed by St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, life-boat personnel in the rescue of ten crew from a Swedish motor vessel under fierce weather conditions, have been recognised...