LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mersey saves five despite loss of one engine When the remnants of Hurricane Lili swept up the Channel on 28 October it not only caused considerable damage ashore but also caught out a 90ft modern yacht, well-found and fitted with modern...

The RNLI's Rescue Survey - where people who have been rescued are given the opportunity to comment on the circumstances - is producing useful information both for the lifeboat service and for passing on as part of the Sea Safety...

7 DAYS departing: May & June 2007 Sailing from Harwich - No Flying Four ports of call; Bergen, Flam, Gudvangen & Rosendal 6 DAY Itineraries also available from Hull & Rosyth from £349 From dramatic fjord scenery and rolling...

The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...

ADVANCED VITAMINS & SUPPLEMENTS From the day we are born, good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways we can help ourselves to a longer, healthier lifespan.

At Healthspan...

THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...

SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...

THE LATE EDWARD SPENDER, ESQ.

BY the lamented death of this gentleman, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has lost one of its ablest and most steadfast advocates in the press. On Friday, the 7th June last, Mr. Spender...