LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

With deep regret we record the following deaths: January 1996 Coleman Hernon, ex-coxswain of Aran Islands lifeboat (formally known as Galway Bay).

Coleman became bowman of the lifeboat in 1949, 2nd Coxswain in 1951 and...

Windsurfer saved BRONZE MEDAL IN A SOUTHERLY GALE FORCE 8, gUSting tO severe gale force 9, a windsurfer was in trouble in the sea off Croyde. It was 1257 on Sunday December 1, 1985, when Hartland Coastguard alerted Appledore lifeboat station...

500 Days raise £40,000.

OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.

This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...

IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...

Ramsgate,' Kent.—At 10 A.M. on the 7th April the motor life-boat Prudential put out for her monthly practice run.

A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat made towards the Brake...

Head Protection (continued from page 265) including wind tunnel work; as a result an RNLI designed wrap around visor (see photograph, page 265) was found to offer the best combination of desirable optical properties and protection. NRDC has...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

Working for your sport Who negotiates in the EEC on behalf of 3.1 million UK yachtsmen, powerboaters and windsurfers, implements safety standards, runs the small ships register, trained over 85,000 people last year in navigation and boat...