LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Who's chicken? Definitely not (I to r) Philip Reiley, Ronnie White, Miles Lindsay, Graham Hardy nor Alan Lindsay, winners of the 1984 Hen Island Challenge Race for home-built craft. The team, all connected with the RNLI at... - View image in PDF

Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth.

THE Committee of Management at their meeting last June elected Miss Alice Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secretary of its Oxford Branch, a...

Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...

EARLS COURT, January 2-12DIM - BUT BUOYANTDESPITE a background of national anxiety, reduced opening hours and minimum heat and light, the 1974 International Boat Show at Earls Court was, as always, a buoyant and happy prologue to the new...

Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.

—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...

Ox the night of the 26th-27th of November, 1954, storms were raging all over the country, and at the Lizard most of the telephones were out of action and the village was without lighting. Among those whose telephones could not be used was...

The sailor's word-book By Admiral WH Smyth Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0851779727 paperback Price £9.99 Although first published in 1867, this digest of nautical terms is far more than just a period piece and should...

RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...