LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...

As we turned back our clocks at the end of October, many of us braced ourselves for the arrival of St Jude: a storm named after the patron saint of desperate cases

It was expected to be the...

• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.

Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...

Jan. 6. 5.16 a.m. Three fishing cobles of Flamborough. Flamborough No. 1 Life-boat stood by cobles.

„ 6. 8.30 a.m. Ketch James, of Carnarvon. Porthdinllaen Life-boat saved . . . 4 i, 6- 4.15 p.m....

1,330 lives saved in 1984 Lifeboats launched 3,613 times and saved 1,330 lives in 1984, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported at the Institution's Annual Meeting in London on May 21.

Over £20 million...

Putting training into practice The crew atWeston-super-Mare were training in the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Coventry and Warwickshire on 8 June when they diverted to a real shout. A crew of five on a yacht requested assistance because of engine...

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Lives saved.

Acaster, s.s., of Hartlepool 19 Admiral Nelson, schooner, of Beanmaris 2 Agenora, trawler, of Tenby .... 3 Albert Wilhelm, brig, of Barth . 5 Albion, steamer, of Hull 3 Alice, smack, of...