LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...

THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...

CBBC’s new TV show Hero Squad is essential viewing for children who dream of going to the rescue one day. Three of the episodes focus on what it’s like to be an RNLI lifesaver.

A group of 12–14-year-olds came to RNLI...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 5.25 in the afternoon on the 23rd of May, 1949, the Aberdovey coastguard telephoned that the ketch of the Out- ward Bound Sea School—the old New Quay sailing life-boat, which had been presented to the...

JANUARY 24TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

The naval authorities called for the life-boat to stand by a vessel east of Stack Rock, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £18 10s. 6d..

Willowbrook Recliners Win a riser recliner in luxury leather “ My aches and pains have lessened and the stress has gone out of my life, I feel so restful.” E N, London – Willowbrook customer 100 runner up prizes too! £150 cash for your...

Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...

DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.

They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...