LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Natural Navigator

By Tristan Gooley
Review by David Price

Let this book take you back to navigational basics with some intriguing techniques.

It is...

" YOUR Committee cannot conclude their report without recording their opinion that the thanks of the whole community are due to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the energy and good management (often in very...

100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...

NOVEMBER 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 7.10 at night a message was received from the signal station that anxiety was felt for the life-boat coxswain, who, with the bowman and five others, had left for Jethou at 12.20 that afternoon in...

APRIL 5TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the motor coble Humility, of Newbiggin, was overdue. She had a crew of three. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea....

By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.

I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...

THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.

At low tide men have...