LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...

A NEW BOAT ALL AT SEA OR PLAIN SAILING? Whether you want to buy a new or secondhand craft or refit your own, make Mercantile Credit your first port of call. As we've been financing aH kinds of boats, and equipment for over 50 years our...

MCH. 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A coble had made a signal for help, but she was taken in tow by another coble. - Rewards, £3 6s..

FEBRUARY 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor boat had been reported in difficulties off Dartmouth, but she was towed in by a tug. - Rewards, £6 6s..

llfracombe - South Division More vie A/s of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

llfracombe. on the north Devon coast, is seen from the west in this view, taken towards high water. The Inner Harbour dries completely at low...

In a strong easterly breeze on the night of the : 28th May, the mast of the lugger ': E. M. L., of Folkestone, was carried away in a heavy squall. The crew then ; rigged up a jury mast and proceeded to- !...

Naval Architect dies Naval Architect Jack Tyrrell of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland died suddenly on 29 July 1988 at the age of 83.

Jack Tyrrell was one of Ireland's most imaginative naval architects, and in 1964 won...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...