LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HECTA F1OO This instrument is ideal for power vessels since the high power of the transmitter defeats interference from propeller and sea noise and so enables soundings to be obtained at higher speeds and in rougher water than is possible...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.

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October 14th. Soon after noon a gale sprang ijp suddenly i from the eastward. A lar^e' number of! Scarborough fishing vessels, which were outside, had to bear up .and run for the harbour at Scarborough. Vessels which ; fall to...

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DROP A PEBBLE into the water, and who knows where the ripples will end? Fifteen years ago Mrs Montague Kavanagh suggested that the Dublin Lifeboat Committee should hold an annual sale of work as a major fundraising effort. In essence it was...

Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...

The annual Three Peaks Race starts from Barmouth and finishes at Fort William, calling at Caernarvon and Ravenglass on the way, where crew members have to disembark and run up Snowdon and Scafell Pike. The race ends with a 13-mile run up Ben... - View image in PDF