LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• As gracious as its subject, Salt- Water Palaces by Maldwin Drummond (Debrett, £8.95) recalls the halcyon days of the large private yacht and, in the words of the publishers: '. . . guides the reader gently below, down the carved...

Facts and Figures In 1985 RNLI lifeboats have so far launched 1,834 times, saving 762 lives.

In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,613 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,330 lives (an average of over three...

IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...

NEW MLA EUROPEAN TRUST Top UK managers now go into Europe Stock markets throughout Europe have been booming - and look set to continue.

The winds of change have blown away old attitudes and restrictions. A renaissance in...

IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...

SINCE the last number of The Life-boat appeared there have died Mr. R. O.

Hill, for many years honorary secretary at the stations of Drogheda (now closed) and Clogher Head ; Captain Thomas McCombie, of Dublin, a gold and...

FOR many years before the war the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, in Sussex, were opened to the public and the entrance money given to charity.

In 1949, for the first time since the war, they were again opened, for five...

ABOUT eight in the morning of 20th December, 1938,' the life-boat watch- man at Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, reported that he could see a schooner apparently at anchor near Splaugh Rocks. An easterly gale was blowing, with a very...