LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...

During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.

A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...

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To Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fnnd:— Balance from 1891 7 15 9 Dividends received in 1892 49 10 - 57 5 9 Amount expended thereout 13 10 5 43 15 4 „ Blake Life-boat Reward...

THE VALUE OF WIRELESS Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.8. in the even- ing of the 15th of April, 1947, the Selsey coastguard reported that on the previous evening a motor launch with a small boat in tow had anchored one and a half miles south of Shelley...

• The Hovercat Mk. 2 multipurpose amphibious hovercraft (Hovermarine Transport Ltd., Hazel Wharf, Hazel Road, Woolston, Southampton) has a wide range of roles.

The Hovercat depicted above is fitted out for casualty...

The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...

As cruising yachtsmen most of us will go through life without needing a lifeboat.

Growing experience, natural caution and a healthy respect for the sea backed up with good safety equipment should see us through. But the...

(continuedfrom page 55) training ships Royalist, Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller, with merchant ships to the south and naval ships stretching away into the distant east. All morning a steady stream was sailing past Calshot as little...