LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...

oat launches Aberdeen ALB: Mar 17. Apr 17 and May 17 ILB: Mar 17. Apr .S.Apr 16.

May 17 and May 18 Aherdovey ILB: Mar 22 (2) Aberystwyth ILB: Mar 16. Mar IX. Apr 21, Apr 22 and Apr 23 •-..mil ! • l . i i iJ ALB: Mar 30 and...

Witham and District branch, Essex, held its 1982 house to house collection in July. When the box of one of its supporters, Mr B. Tebbutt of Coggershall, was opened it was found to contain £75.30; that amount was made up on one £10...

— On the morning of the 8th April the steamer Suzon, of Antwerp, ran ashore at Breaksea Point. She was bound from France to Newport with a cargo of pitwood and carried a crew of twenty- four. She was seen by the watchman at Breaksea, and the...

JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of...

THE celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the first life-boat on the Norwegian coast took place at Stavanger on 22nd August, 1954. It was held at the time of the Annual General Meeting of the Norwegian Life-boat Society and...

Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.

When he was...

• Sailing Years, an autobiography by K. Adlard Coles (Granada Publishing, £9.95) is .fascinating reading because alongside the tales of this well-known sailor there emerges the story of the development of sailing and racing offshore. I...