LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

12 February: Clifden Four experienced fish farmers were working at the mouth of Clifden Bay in Galway when a storm left them stranded and they called for assistance. The Clifden inshore lifeboat rode through huge...

FEBRUARY 23RD. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.

At 6 A.M. four Staithes motor fishing cobles went out to fish. By 9.30 A.M.

it was blowing a strong gale from the E.N.E., with a heavy sea and rain. At 11.55 A.M....

• E. C. B. Lee, O.B.E., c.Eng., F.R.I.N.A., and Kenneth Lee, M.B.B.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.G.S., D.I.H., are to be congratulated on their book Safety and Survival at Sea, (Cassell & Co., price £2.50). A vast amount of time has been taken...

WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the afternoon of the 27th October the steamer Goleta, of London, sheltering in Ramsey bay while bound from North Africa to Workington, signalled that a doctor was needed immediately. A strong N.N.W. gale was blowing,...

The Institution's best wishes for many happy years of retirement go to Commander D. F. White, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R. (Retd.), who relinquished his post as Chief Inspector of H.M. Coastguard at the end of 1965.

Commander...

The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman in 1977 has been given to Coxswain Thomas Walsh of Kilmore.

On December 24 the lifeboat under his command was capsized twice while investigating...

CONSIDERING what a vast amount of wealth has been every year engulfed beneath the waves since mankind engaged in commerce by sea, it is matter for astonishment that so little has been attempted in an organized and scientific manner for the...