LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EVINRUDE THE CHOICE OF PROFESSIONALS On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors haveto work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every...

MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.

Many other winches of similar design...

The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List published in June - K.B.E.

Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell, K.B.E., C.B., who was ex-officio on the Committee of Management of the...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting...

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...

On the closing of the Blackrock life-boat station the following awards were made : DANIEL SMITH, 1 year coxswain and 10J years second coxswain, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service, and a pension.

JAMES STANLEY, 1 year...

is now some seventeen years since we felt it our duty to call the attention of the public to the lamentable disuse into which ; the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since that period great advances have been made in teaching this important...