LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

It seems small.

Until you turn it on.

The Rose® Acoustic Wave® music system. The biggest thing about it is the sound.

It measures just 10.5"H x 18"Wx 6.5"D and...

At 2.56 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a rowing boat was reported in danger two miles north of the boathouse. Four minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a rough sea and a strong south westerly wind. It was one hour after...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 16th September a party of three women and a man went cruising in the motor yacht Sydia. The sea was rather rough, with a strong N.E. breeze.

The yacht ran across the...

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 12.55 in the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small barge was flying a signal and drifting to the north-east, half a mile offshore.

The motor life-boat...

Southwold, Suffolk.—At 12.32 P.M.

on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor and sailing yacht, to the southward of Southwold, was making very heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, and...

Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.5 p.m. on 5th July, 1964, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was in difficulties about two miles out.

At 1.10 the inshore rescue boat launched in a moderate westerly...

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 1.5 a.m. on 20th December, 1968, it was learnt that the coaster Eden Fisher had sighted red flares to the west of Strumble Head. At 1.30 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched.

There was a...

When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.

Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...