LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Famous for risking her own life in 1838 to rescue nine shipwrecked people, Grace Darling has inspired many a child and adult to support the lifeboats. The 175th anniversary of her brave actions will be marked on Saturday 7 September with...

Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...

SKEGNESS.—A signal of distress was displayed in the fore-rigging of the sloop Unity, of Boston, bound from Lynn for Sunderland with a cargo of wheat, on the morning of the 25th October, during a fresh N. breeze with snow-squalls and a heavy...

Together we build a better engine Lifeboats Roval National Lifeboat Institution Royal Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barms Ltd for over 20 years.

These engines have been specially modified to the...

JANUARY 2 l ST. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except a big floating mine which was reported by the Scarborough life-boat. - Rewards : Filey, £11 12s.;...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. —At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht to the south-east of Aldeburgh, with only one man aboard, was making heavy weather, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy...

At about 5.30 A.M. on the 31st March flares were ob- served from Moelfre Island. A strong S.W. gale prevailed at the time, with rough sea, and the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched. On arriving at the north side of the Island...

Rtlph Lee. Technical Editor Camping A Caravanning' . the finest outdoor garments * I have ever seen . . . not iust good matetial and well made It is the amount of thought that has gone into the design that delights me . . . I give this *...