LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dear Editor

I read the Winter 2008–9 account of the opening of Dart station with interest but some confusion.

The appeal was for £259,000 but a D class lifeboat costs £...

THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...

How many branches have had a whole island put at their disposal for a picnic supper? Broadstone branch had such an honour when Mr and Mrs H. J.

Palmer kindly allowed them to use Round Island in Poole Harbour in...

When six teenagers fished into the early hours of a Summer morning, they suddenly became caught themselves

The group, aged 14–16, began night fishing from disused oyster beds at the north end of Langstone Harbour,...

Aberdeen ALB ON 1248: Nov 13 (Twice) Abersoch 1LB B-582: Jan 5 Aberystwyth ILB B-704: Dec 10. Feb 17 and Feb 21 Aith ALB ON 1232: Nov 1 ALB ONI 103: Dec 14 Aldehurgh ALB ONI 193: Nov 20 ILBD-520: Nov 20 Amble ALB ON 1176: Jan 29 and Feb 9...

Ix a former number of this Journal we have recorded that 36,000 fishing-boats, employ- ing 150,000 men and boys, are annually engaged in the fisheries of the United King- dom. In the April number will be found some statistics of the Herring...

EARLY SUMMER began with several inshore lifeboat ceremonies. On Saturday, May 14, a number of readers of the Birmingham Evening Mail, together with members of Birmingham branch committee, travelled to Exmouth, South Devon, for the handing...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother named the new Thurso life-boat—-a 48-foot 6-inch Solent class boat—on llth August, by the Hotel Quay, Scrabster Harbour.

Named The Three Sisters, she was paid for by an anonymous...