LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coming to a place near you soonSometimes good advice can be difficult to swallow, especially if it's on a subject close to your heart. This, coupled with the fact that people generally don't actively go out and seek advice, can be a...

• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...

On the evening of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a ketch near Cove was dragging her anchor. A little later it was reported that she was still drag- ging, and was unable to start her engine.

A W.N.W. wind...

Swanage, Dorset.—At about 9.50 P.M.

on the 2nd August the coastguard saw flares half a mile east of Peveril Point.

A moderate S. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...

Swanage, Dorset. — At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that a salvage vessel, working on a wreck south-west of Chapman's Pool, appeared to be in difficulties and later stated that she had hoisted...

We would build into them all the quality and reliability 70 years experience gives us.

We would make them give years of trouble-free service and the highest possible levels of performance.

We would have...

the choice of the R.N.L.I.

and discriminating users everywhere Caterpillar-built marine diesels have proved their reliability and operating economy all over the world. Now, for the most critical applications and gruelling...

The Board of Trade have prepared a scheme for the issue of boatmen's licenses to people in charge of small passenger vessels which ply in inland or in estuarial waters, or go only short distances to sea.

The scheme,...