LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 10 a.m. on gth August, 1966, a white cabin cruiser appeared to be in distress aboutfour miles south west of the station.

There was a moderate south westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was low...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 6.45 p.m. on 19th August, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties off Bodelias point.

The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 7.10 in a south south...

Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 9 p.m.

on 16th October, 1966, flares were seen on Innishmurray Island, Donegal Bay. Four Ballyshannon men had gone seal shooting earlier in the day and had not returned.

The...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.

A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.

—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...

A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...

With the 25-knot Trent and Severn lifeboats becoming increasingly common sights around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Nicholas Leach looks at the history of the Waveney class, the first 'fast' lifeboat to...

OCTOBER 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

At 1.30 in the morning a message came from the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore that phoenix AX193 - one of the concrete caissons used to build the breakwater of the invasion port on...

The Institution has now had designed for it, by the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company, a Tractor, with a Roadless Traction creeper track, which, it is hoped, will be able to launch Life-boats off all types of beach. The carriages of the...