LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jan. 1.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Insti- tution, with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to the EARL of DUMORE, and 51. to three fishermen, in acknowledgment of their gallant services in putting off in an open boat, and proceeding,...

Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...

ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.

Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...

1963 Kt 311,782 562 67,171 18,851 250 56,924 21,060 5,016 3,932 86,932 3,831 83,101 481,717 11,058 1,189 24,448 2,439 3.83I 42,965 39,602 33,883 73,485 75,918 2,409 12,716 61,666 3,522 1,546 81,859 46,827 8,632 409 55,868 811,812...

A NEW book on the Life-boat Service is to appear in the autumn. It will be by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E.

Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Vice-President of the Institution, and will have a foreword by H.R.H....

WHAT ARE THE FORCES WHICH, WHEN HARNESSED, WILL MAKE A BOAT RIGHT HERSELF? by Stuart Welford, MiMechE MRINA Research and Development Officer, RNLITHE RNLI FLEET has included selfrighting lifeboats for well over one hundred years—since 1851...

Boule me over! Treliske Cellar Supplies of Truro are staunch supporters of the lifeboat service. Five years ago the company's managing director, Bill Peaker, came up with the idea of playing the French game ofboule and organised the...

THE LIFEBOAT Atlantic 21 lifeboat B- 589 James Burgess Funding: Gift of Mr and Mrs A Burgess THE CREW Helmsman Andrew Coe Crew members Philip Brenchley Adam Cowell WALMER LIFEBOAT STATION Established: First established 1856; closed 1912.<...