LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Baalbek, of Oslo, had hit the Great Nore Tower Forts. One of the towers had collapsed, and a number of men from the...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At midnight on the 1st of August, 1957, the police telephoned to say that the motor launch Golden Galleon had not returned from a plea- sure cruise up the river. There were 180 passengers on board. The...

THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...

Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.

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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.

Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac innatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...

• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...

You receive THE LIFE-BOAT regularly because of your close personal association with the life-boat service. May I now ask t for your help or, should I say, further help? If every reader at this time of year were to find five new 3...

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