LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

President— VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.

Chairman— THOMAS BARING, ESQ., M.P., V.P....

Thursday, 17th June, 1926.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Appointed Mr. F. T. W. WINTER, District Organizing Secretary for the Midlands area, in place of Commander R. W. M. LLOYD, D.S.O., R.N.,...

Saved yacht BEAUMARIS HONORARY SECRETARY was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 0943 on Saturday, July 23, 1977, that the skipper of Rossekop, on passage from Glasson Dock to Amsterdam and now 20 miles north east of Point Lynas, was injured...

• Dr Robert Haworth, the author of First Aid for Yachtsmen (Adlard Coles, £3.95), is not only the honorary medical adviser to the RNLI's station at Barmouth, but he is also an active member of the ILB crew, and in that capacity was...

AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.

AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...

Land's End tragedy—parents' appeal The parents of the four Buckinghamshire schoolboys who were drowned off Land's End in May have made an appeal to the public to help them buy a lifeboat. The parents have asked that the fund...

UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...

FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...