LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Having a ball The Royal Solent Yacht club held its annual charity auction and regatta on 29 and 30 May - raising a whopping £15,480 for RNLI funds.

The weekend event which also included a ball, a barbecue lunch... - View image in PDF

One morning last May an army ambulance stuck in the sands at New Brighton, Cheshire, and two other vehicles which went to drag it out also stuck.

The tide was coming in, with" a nasty swell, and the need was so urgent...

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The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd., of Littlehampton for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.

COMPASSES Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses, post free on...

UIPttfrtT The New Glenans Sailing Manual Published at £17.50 YOURS FOR ONLY £1plus P&P YOU NEED SEND NO MONEY NOW PLEASE POST TODAY LB/10/82/W1 To: Readers Union Ltd., PO Box 6, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 2DW "*** I would...

WICKLOW, IBELAND. -— The Life-boat placed here some years since having become unfit for further service has been replaced by the Institution—a fine new sailing boat of the self-righting type having, with the full concurrence of the Local...

Whitby, Yorkshire— At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message re- ceived by wireless that the motor vessel Arbroath, of Dundee, had been in col- lision with the S.S. Aina Maria Nur- minen, of...

THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given...