LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.

Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac innatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...

FURTHER AWARD Longhope, Orkneys. On 3rd~4th January, 1964, the Longhope life-boat rescued nine men from the Aberdeen trawler Ben Barvas. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 23, the awards included that of a silver...

A LETTER written to the firm of Messrs.

Ransomes and Sims, of Orwell Works, Ipswich, and signed by seven members of the staff " on behalf of the Clerks, Foremen and Workmen of this estab- lishment " was published...

FATHER WAS ILL Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 2.30 p.m.

on 13th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Holyhead informed the honorary secretary that the father of one of the crew members of the Morecambe...

LONGHOPE, ORKNEY.—During a terrific gale from W. by S. at about 10 A.M. on the 20th January, a steamer was observed apparently in distress. The Dickinson Edleston Life-boat went to her assistance, and found that she was the s.s. Ben Avon, of...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 25th of March, 1954. the coast- guard telephoned that a red flare had been reported off Selsey. At 9.55 another red flare was seen, and at 10.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...

Helmsman Alan Clarke. - View image in PDF

AFTEK their busiest winter on the seas for twenty years, life-boatmen have been very busy during the past year on the air. There have been nine broadcasts in which English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh coxswains have taken...