LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A message was received shortly before nine o'clock in the morning of the 6th August, stating that a sailing-barge was in difficulties near the entrance to Mothecombe Harbour. The Life-boat Michael Smart was at once launched and proceeded...

Informa- tion reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was launched and proceeded to...

Newhaven, Sussex.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, four men were cut off by the tide under the Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Seaford. One of them swam to Cuckmere. There the police informed the Newhaven coastguard who passed the news...

LIFE-BOAT CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS FOUR attractive and interesting life-boat Christmas cards are available this year.

A.—A card bearing an illustration reproduced from a painting by Stewart Henry Bell, hanging at Head...

Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27... - View image in PDF

. — Several cobles were out fishing on the morning of the 13th October, when a gale sprung up from the N.E., and the sea became very heavy.

Some of the boats returned to the shore before the sea had risen very much, but two...

power the lifeboat of the future Designed for deep sea rescue under all conditions, this all metal lifeboat sets the pace for the future. Superbly equipped and designed, the choice of Gardner diesel engines is a fitting tribute to the...

THE SOUTH EAST coast of England, as was the case during the war, still hears (and sometimes sees) military aircraft belonging to the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F.

During this summer alone life-boats of the Institution have...