LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

engines iere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life,the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.

MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...

engines Vere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life,the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.

MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...

THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...

DOCTOR TAKEN OUT TO TRAWLER Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.18 on the night of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had been taken ill on board the trawler Winmarleigh of Fleetwood and needed medical...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Ryde police had reported a motor boat drifting off Sands Head buoy. The motor boat's engines ap- peared to have...

Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard to keep a catamaran under observation.

As the weather was becoming rapidly worse and the boat could not be...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshlre.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that six boys in a rowing boat off the North Head had only two oars between them and were in difficulties in the tide and heavy swell,...

Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1948, during a dense fog, the coast- guard rang up to say that the skipper of a motor boat had reported passing the local fishing vessel Kathleen near Longnose Buoy and that...