LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in Appendix A in that book a list of the works of Sir William Hillary, whose Appeal to the British Nation, published in...

SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...

FOR some years yacht clubs and golf clubs have been holding competitions, for which all the entry money has been donated to the Institution. The prizes for yacht races have been pennants, and for golf competitions spoons. The Institution is...

Double crossed It is worth remembering that not every plan for raising funds through sponsorship, however well laid, ends in success.

The following is a letter sent to Andrew Young, regional organiser, south west, by two...

WALMER, KENT. On the 18th January, 1939, the motor boat Rose Marie helped the life-boat to save the yacht Leigh Hall. -Rewards, £3 10s., 12s. for fuel used and 12s.

for damage to tow-rope.

(For a...

IN the early hours of the 8th of December, 1959, the Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona was launched on receipt of a message that the North Carr lightvessel had broken adrift. Some time between 5.15 and 6.00 in the morning the life- boat capsized...

On the 9th November, the No. 2 Lifeboat Godsend went out in reply to signals of distress, and assisted to save the schooner Milky Way, of Fraserburgh,which was in a dangerous position close to the Barber Sands, during a very strong northerly...

THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...