LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Working for your sport Who negotiates in the EEC on behalf of 3.1 million UK yachtsmen, powerboaters and windsurfers, implements safety standards, runs the small ships register, trained over 85,000 people last year in navigation and boat...

Over the weekend of May 17 and 18, 185 motor cruisers from 16 boat clubs on the River Thames assembled for Twickenham and District branch's 21st annual inter-club regatta at The Queen's Promenade, Kingston-upon-Thames. After an... - View image in PDF

1993 and all that! The London Boat Show at Earls Court this January marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association - the organisation which evolved and expanded into the membership scheme as...

HOLIDAYMAKERS may come and holidaymakers may go, and at Skegness they do that by their thousands, but the town and its people have all the contentment and assurance of deep roots and long friendships. There is above all a sense of continuity...

Classifed HEALTH SHOPPING GIFTS However Faded or Torn, Your old Eiderdown can be re-made as new EIDERDOWNS RE-COVERED Also DUVETS RECOVERED and NEW FEATHER EIDERDOWNS Please send stamp for patterns.

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A DANGEROUS HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 11.30 in the morning of the 4th of December, 1947, word was received that local fishing cobles and other boats were coming in. The tide was ebbing, a light easterly breeze was blowing and...

It took Shoreline member John Simpson 12 weeks to grow a beard six centimeters long; sponsorship for this growth industry brought in £76. On the night the beard was, somewhat recklessly, removed a further £94 was raised for Yeovil... - View image in PDF

THE exact position which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION occupies with regard to keeping a watch for casualties seems to be very little understood by the general public, the result being that on several occasions the Coxswains of...