LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...

• A leading maritime historian, Dr John de Courcy Ireland has lectured on maritime history in more than 20 countries in four continents; he is research officer of both the Irish Commission on Maritime History, which he established, and the...

Z-BOATS to the rescue...

Oulboj'd En-Jin* InUfrtl Trillion Mittrtii n.rr bottom board*! M-in hull of S icpjritt Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capableof...

NEW! The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines at The Mountbatten Festival of Music, 1997 tecorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. "The Uountbatten Festival of Music 1997" is the atest in a long line of musical triumphs by...

ON the night of 1st November, 1919, the North Deal Life-boat was launched the rescue of an Esthonian three- masted schooner, the Toogo, which was, wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.

A whole gale was blowing, which rose times to...

THE following narrative of the wreck of H.M.S. Anson will, we doubt not, be read with interest. Certainly, it is not a recent occurrence; but there are incidents in it, as in many others of a similar character, which are deserving of being...

Second-Coxswain Robert C. Brown, of Swanage, Acting-Coxswain H. E. Pow, of Appledore, Motor-Mechanic C. T. Hornabrook, of Appledore. - View image in PDF

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Wherever you sail you'll find Brookes & Gatehouse instruments lesifned and manufactured by A full complement of Brookes and Gatehouse units comprises: HERON D.F. aerial. HOMER receiver and short-wave converter. HECTA echo sounder....