LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...

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...

Coaster founders AN ICELANDIC COASTER, Tungufoss, in distress four miles south of Longships Lighthouse, was reported by Land's End Coastguard to the deputy launching authority of Sennen Cove lifeboatstation at 2027 on Saturday September...

Ramsgate remembered Reading Ken Baker's letter in the Spring issue reminded me that I also had reason to be grateful to the Ramsgate lifeboat.

I also had the same experience as he but was taken aboard a small Dutch...

IT has been decided to make special awards in connexion with a service which took place at Fraserburgh in January, 1912, when the Life-boat was launched to the help of a steam trawler, Clio. The service of the Life-boat was reported to the...

COXSWAIN JOHN KING, of Bridlington, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four men from the motor fishing vessel Normanby on 6th January, 1967.

At 5.37 on the afternoon of...

Tyne class holds coaster from rocks The Bronze Medal has been awarded to the Salcombe coxswain/ mechanic Frank Smith for a service to the coaster Janet C, which prevented the vessel running aground in rough seas and a near gale in the early...

FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...