LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WITH THE DEATH of Lord Saltoun, the RNLI has lost one of its most devoted supporters. His main interest was not so much in technical matters such as boats and methods of communication, but in the people who worked for the Institution, its...

Fall from cliff INFORMATION that a man had fallen over the cliff near the Western Carricks was given to St Ives station honorary secretary by Land's End Coastguard at 1351 on Wednesday August 26, 1981, and he was asked to launch the D...

RNLI supporter Joan Bennett swapped land for sea on a sailing trip last year, thanks to an auction of promises event put on by the Alton Fundraising Branch. In the last 5 years, Joan’s bids have won her three of these sail-away days, joining...

ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...

CAISTER.—The fishing dandy Vanguard, of Great Yarmouth, returning to her port from the fishing grounds during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 19th September, went on the Barber Sand ; she got off, but afterwards...

On the evening of the 20th August the coastguard telephoned that Gorton light-vessel was making signals indi- cating a ship in distress N.E. of the light-vessel. A light S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...

BROADSTAIRS.—A message by telephone was received from the North Sand Head Light-vessel on the 27th May, reporting a vessel ashore on the Goodwin Sands.

A moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., there was a heavy...

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.

LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...