LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HECTA F1OO This instrument is ideal for power vessels since the high power of the transmitter defeats interference from propeller and sea noise and so enables soundings to be obtained at higher speeds and in rougher water than is possible...

Expenditure was lower in 1940 because, owing to essential war work in the shipbuilding yards, the building of life-boats had to be greatly curtailed, and only half as much was spent under this heading as in the previous year. In spite of...

THE BACK GARDEN of the harbourside house of Sir Max Aitken, whose name she now bears, was the unique setting for the naming ceremony of the RNLI's newest 52ft Arun class lifeboat at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Saturday May 2. The...

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.

Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Cloetta, of Burnham-on- Crouch, was aground four and a quarter miles south-east of Clacton pier. A later message...

YACHT ESCORTED UP RIVER New Brighton, Cheshire. At 11.40 on the morning of the 22nd June, 1963, a message was received that a yacht needed help north of Rock lighthouse, and ten minutes later the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at...

Birds Eye Foods Inside Back Cover Evett Sailwear Limited 182 Functional Clothing Inside Front Cover G. & M. Power Plant—Binoculars 182 G. & M. Power Plant—Radar Alarm 212 Glanvill Enthoven & Co Limited 182 David Jolly (Tiller...

Honorary Life- Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution:...