LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 8.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over the cliffs near Berry Head and lay on a ledge of rock close to the water’s edge. At 8.40 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, taking...

FEBRUARY 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON.

ESSEX. At about 7.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that information had been received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel that a vessel to the W.N.W. was sounding S.O.S. on her siren. A...

NOVEMBER 2lST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 2.45 P.M. the naval base reported that two small fishing boats were in distress just outside the harbour, and at 3.5 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A strong S.E....

LITTLE HAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, intelligence was received that a large barque which was lying in St. Bride's Bay was dragging her anchors and was...

UFE.

When you open the door of a Volvo 460 Turbo, you'll notice the extra weight of the built-in crash-bar. It's there in all Volvo doors.

Sink back in your seat, secure in the knowledge that you...

SAVE MONEY ON PETROL SAFELY ACHIEVE MORE POWER, EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE INLONGTE In 1988 Henry Broquet was awarded che USSR Peace Medal.

REDUCED FUEL CONSUMPTION REDUCED EXHAUST EMISSIONS THE USE OF UNLEADED PETROL ON...

The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...

Pulling Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...