LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 29TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 6.12 in the evening the coastguard reported that a motor boat was making distress signals three miles east of Cresswell village. A strong south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a...

MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...

JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...

Two lifeguards raced to reach a kitesurfer as he was dragged under water towards rocks. Somehow they had to slow him down

On the afternoon of Tuesday 7 June, RNLI lifeguards watched a...

Boat Show 1995 Once again the RNLI will be at the London Boat Show at Earls Court from 4-15 January inclusive. The show always proves a successful way of recruiting new members and, of course, current members are very welcome to come along...

COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...

• Roving Commissions (R.C.C. Press, price 42s.) is a limited annual edition of the Journal of the Royal Cruising Club, edited by Alasdair Garrett. If every reader gets as much pleasure and profit from these brisk, refreshing yacht journals...

NEW! The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines at The Mountbatten Festival of Music, 1997 tecorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. "The Uountbatten Festival of Music 1997" is the atest in a long line of musical triumphs by...