LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAST Christmas a number of Branches again arranged carol-singing parties, and they were even more successful than before, particularly in Sussex. East Grinstead (Sussex), which has led the way with this method of helping the Life-boat...

At 10.40 A.M.

on the 2nd August, during a moderate E.N.E. gale with heavy sea, the Coast- guard reported that a disabled shrimp boat was driving ashore about a mile to the southward. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark...

THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given...

WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.

Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...

At 11.2 A.M.

on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...

THE portrait on the cover is of Richard Walsh, the coxswain of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat. Richard Walsh has been coxswain since December 1946.

From August 1941 to December 1946 he was second coxswain, and before...

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.50 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was ashore in Sinclair Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a moderate...

Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.

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