LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning the local fishing fleet had put to sea in moderate weather, but by noon an east-north-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Four motor fishing vessels were seen to...

OCTOBER 14TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on Spittal Point. The northerly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat J. and W. was launched...

APRIL 2 9TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.50 A.M. the lighthouse reported a partly submerged ship’s boat about one and a half miles to the south-west, and the motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at 11 A.M. An easterly breeze was...

THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.

Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...

• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.

Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...

The Coastal Pacific From Canada to California along the Pacific Coast Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on this fantastic 16-day rail tour from Vancouver to San Diego near the Mexican border.

A...

Lost Photdgraphiof the RNLI By Edward Wake-Walker Published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 0750937181 Price: £25 • , .

Legendary lifeboat rescues are brought vividly to life in this w book by former* RNU PR Director Edward...

AT this time last year, when tendering our sympathy to the earnest bands of "Life-boat Saturday" workers in the unusually arduous labours they had passed through so generously and cheer- fully (such labours resulting from the...