LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats.

UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | be placed at Stations where it was possible to build a Launching Slipway, or where the boat could...

THE following memorandum has been prepared for guidance after consultation with underwriters. The memorandum deals only with the more salient aspects of salvage, and must not be regarded as an exhaustive submission on the law of salvage.<...

History of the membership scheme Sir - It is evident from your columns that there is some confusion as to the origins of the membership scheme. Consequently I feel it is time to put the record straight.

At its March meeting...

Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test

The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...

Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...

WILL all members please note that the Y.L.A.

has moved office to 29A Castle Street. Salisbury, Wiltshire (Tel.: Salisbury 6966 (STD 0722).

The new office has its links with the marine world as the building...

Eastern Division Three rescued THE WARDEN of Burnham Overy Yacht Club, Peter Beck, was told at 1100 on Thursday April 17, 1980, that someone was shouting for help in Overy Staithe Harbour. Mr Beck, who is also an auxiliary coastguard,...

The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...