LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Open Days The Open Days at the RNLI's Poole Headquarters and Depot, which were postponed from last year due to building work, have been scheduled for August.

Both sites, including the new building, will be open on...

Lifeboat Services from page 118 July 6, 26. 28. August 10, 11, 23 and 24 (twice) Crimdon Dene, Co Durham D class inflatable: June 15. 28, July 28, August 16 and 24 Cromer, Norfolk 48ft din Oakley: June 23 D class inflatable: July 12, August...

The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...

by Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.

Deputy Chairman of the Institution.

This is the second part of Commander Szoann's article. In this issue he deals with his subsequent visit to...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...

THE public have to thank Dr. ALLNATT, of Frant, for an excellent review of the weather of the past twelve months. It is always pleasant to be able to correct one's vague recollections by an actual record; and there is, perhaps, no...

MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...

JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...