LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.

In 88 of those 169 launches the...

(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.

Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...

It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …

The industrial...

ON 21st January, 1970, Fraserburgh life-boat capsized with the loss of five members of her crew. There was only one survivor, Mr. Jackson Buchan. On 25th March Mr. Goronwy Roberts, Minister of State, Board of Trade, stated in the House of...

OWING to the fact that so many schools have been moved on account of the war, it has been regretfully decided not to hold the Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat Essay Competition for Elementary Schools in 1940..

THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.

When I...

The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).

• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...

ANOTHER heavy loss has fallen on the Institution by the death of Mr. Edgar H.

Johnson, F.C.I.S., of Manchester, the District Organising Secretary for the North of England.

He was taken ill last spring,...