LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...

THE COMPETITION for the Renault STL car is still progressing well. The draw will be made at the Motor Fair at Earls Court on October 28 and the lucky winner will be published in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Your response has been most...

It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...

IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark;...

COXSWAIN Daniel Kirkpatrick of Longhope has achieved the unusual distinction of being awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the second time. His second award was made for the rescue of nine men from the Aberdeen...

NEWS POINT HURRICANE HEROES For those who lived through it, the hurricane which hit the south and south east coasts of England during the early hours of October 16 last will forever be imprinted on their memories.

None more...

Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...