LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...

Three saved after 11 hour service to yachtcromer lifeboat 2nd Coxswain Billy Davies received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for saving the lives of three crew and their yacht after an eleven hour 1/etU *.

Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...

Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning of the 31st October it was learned that a man in a small fishing boat was trying, unsuccessfully, to make harbour.

A whole north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very rough...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1952, the life-boat head launcher reported that the seas were very heavy on the harbour bar, making the conditions bad for returning fishing cobles. Four cobles were at...

On the 20th Oct., about 10.30 P.M., it then blowing a mode- rate gale at S.S.W. with a very heavy sea on, a man swam ashore about a mile north of Winterton Life-boat Station. An over- turned ship's boat lay beating about in the surf not...

ON 24th November the ketch Ceres, of Bude, Cornwall, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of eighty tons of slag.

Her crew was a skipper and a mate.

They intended to go over Bideford Bar for the night, but...

Royal visitor to the depot and headquarters HRH The Princess Royal visited the RNLI during a brief visit to Poole on 30 November 1989.

Despite a very tight schedule, which meant she could only spend some 45 minutes with the...