LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wraysbury Lake Sailing Club has traditionally held a series of three days of dinghy racing in aid of the RNLI. but last year, getting more ambitious, it staged a regatta during the whole of August Bank Holiday weekend. There were 60... - View image in PDF

THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.

The Chairman observed that it had been well...

The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey, was launched at 2.5 A.M. on 20th March, in a light N.W.

breeze, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the s.s. Wafford, of London, was aground on Haisborough Sands. The...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the life-boat Craziford and Con- stance Conybeare was returning to her moorings after she had been beached for bottom cleaning, when a dinghy was seen to...

Even as they're growing older, your children will still look to you for support.

Especially when the grandkids come along! So, as well as offering words of wisdom, it's good to know you can also lighten the...

FAMILY PARTY ADRIFT IN A GALE Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, a north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.30 the coastguard reported a vessel...

Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.

of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...

TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tremendous sea running, she failed in doing so,...