LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 6.15 P.M. on the 19th March a telephone message was received from Kentish Knock Light- vessel reporting that a barque, appar- ently on the Kentish Knock Sands, was burning flares for assistance. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil...

Z-BOATSto the rescue. .

Extensively used by the R.N.L.I.

for inshore rescue work, the inflatable RFD-GQ PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being...

Penlee Lifeboat Disaster With great sorrow the death is announced of the coxswain and crew of Penlee lifeboat which was lost on service on the night of Saturday December 19, 1981.

Penlee lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Solomon...

The sloop Chester- field, of Lynn, whilst bound to Hull, laden with gravel, stranded on the Inner Sinks on the 9th September.

Coxswain Cross immediately assembled his crew and proceeded to the vessel in the boarding...

IT will be within the recollection of our readers, that in May 1913 we had the pleasure of announcing that His Majesty the King of Norway had graciously given a monetary reward to be divided among the crew of the Skegness Lifeboat, for their...

ON September 6th the Brighton and Hove branch arranged a balloon race, with the help of Messrs. J. Lyons, who supplied the balloons. The race con- tinued all day, and among those who came to see it were the Mayor of Hove, one of the two...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Strachan, of Peterhead. He has been coxswain since 1922, and during those fourteen years the Peterhead life- boat has rescued 104 lives. Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the...

ON STAND UF2 BOAT SHOW HECTA echo sounder Model RS obtains the best of both worlds by using the rotating lamp system of display (with bright, everlasting light-emitting diodes) in the instrument case and a meter for the cockpit repeater....