LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 31 July, 1988, show that so far this year.

The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 1,690 times (an average of more than eight launches a day) More than 500 lives have been...

The Girvan fish- ing fleet were out fishing early on the morning of the 28th February, when a gale sprang up from S.W., which veered to N.W. and increased in violence. All the boats reached harbour safely with the exception of four, and...

FEBRUARY 22ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

A British Wellington aeroplane had come down in the Wash, but nothing was found in the course of a nine hours’ search. - Rewards, £29 11s. 6d..

DEC. 28TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. A trawler had picked up a mine in her nets and it exploded when it struck the trawler, but her crew were rescued by another vessel. - Rewards, £20 12s. 6d.

Harkt Harkl 'tis the boom of a distant gun, And the stoutest heart doth quail, For there's death maybe in the raging sea To him who would dare the gale.

But the wind may shriek till it crack each cheek, And the sea...

Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.

If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an important reason for...

TWIN NAMING CEREMONIES at Opposite ends of England took place at 3 o'clock on Saturday, September 6, 1975. At the same time as, in Northumberland, the new Amble lifeboat was being named Harold Salvesen by Mrs H. K. Salvesen, widow of the...