LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Eastbourne.

AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...

SAILING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.41 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing coble Egret, which was on a pleasure trip from Amble to Blyth, was making...

PROTECTED BY GAY'S PAINTS FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY The superiority and extreme quality of Gay's paint is such that for well over 50 years Gay's products have been used by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to protect and...

THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....

By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.

[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...

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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Cromarty.—At 3 P.M. on the 3rd May, 1939, a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down...