LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.

Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...

SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...

With half of its crew women, seven of its volunteers from the same family and not a drop of salt water in sight, Lough Derg is a unique lifeboat stationAt the turn of the Millennium the RNLI began to look at new ways to save lives, in...

LIFEBOAT SMALL ADS HIGHLAND COTTAGE Nr. LOCH NESS Cosy, stone cottage, sleeps 4 in stunning scenic area.

I Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Bolt 01424 422279 LANCASTER CANAL gateway to the Lake District and the Dales. Luxury narrowboats...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—A routine exercise had been arranged for two o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1955, but just before the life-boat put to sea the coastguard reported that the yacht White Lady, of Southwold, which had a...

Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.

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

TRIMARAN SAVED Dover, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on loth April, 1965, a resident at Folkestone informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Folkestone. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 4.55 in a strong...