LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.

These figures are...

cc Broquet Reduces fuel consumption and Increases engine power.

It has been approved by the Ambulance Service, the DTI and Mr Bishop from Solihull Simply dropped into the fuel tank, Broquet transforms the performance and...

THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...

By Mr. OTTAR VOGT, Secretary of the Norwegian Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked.

THE coast of Norway is very extensive and mountainous, rocky and precipitous all over — the whole coastline being guarded by a fence...

Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...

It’s always difficult to choose which rescues to feature in Lifeboat magazine. With an average of 23 people rescued a day, there’s a lot of courage and determination to choose from

A person in the water. Fishermen in a...

IN spite of the diatribes of pacificists against war as a relic of barbarism and the embodiment of all evil, the present stupendous struggle has once again proved that, notwithstanding the horrors, t h e misery and the grief which war brings...

The Sea Chart: the Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts

by John Blake
Review by Tim Corke

The history of Great Britain has been governed by the sea and maritime...