LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JABSCO ... the first name in marine pumps JACK CUNNINGHAM used JABSCO pumps for his award winning Fairey Huntsman FORDSPEED —all supplied by Emmett (Marine and Industrial) Limited.

Last year Jack Cunningham completed 8,000...

Around the Fundraising Regions A list of branches and guilds from the South East and North West of England regions SOUTH EAST of ENGLAND Surrey RNLI River House Bell Lane Uckfield East Sussex TN22 1AE Tel(0825) 761466 Regional Organiser M.J....

Deaths Raymond Baxter – broadcaster, yachtsman, former member of the RNLI Public Relations Advisory Committee and Guest of Honour at the 1976 Annual Presentation of Awards Kathleen Castle – lifelong fundraiser and wife of former Port Isaac...

"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of September, 1951, the Polruan coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles south of Fowey Harbour, and at 11.15 the life-boat C.D.E.C. was launched. A moderate sea was running with a...

ITS our last January Number we gave a short account and illustration of the Boat's Fluid Compass, adopted by this Institution, and in this Number we insert an interesting paper on the " Mariner's Compass," with which we...

Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint: double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Cflmene.—Bust oi Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyoji." Double legend, *' Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....