LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" WHAT is the Naval Reserve?" This is a question which was very frequently asked during the early part of the month of May of the present year; and, certainly, until the daily papers undertook the task of en- lightenment, the...

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

Radios, helicopters, MRCCs - they have all altered the face of modern Search and Rescue.

But there are things for which the lifeboat is still best, as two friends of yachting writer and television broadcaster Malcolm McKeag...

AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....

A run saves fishing vessel in storm force windsAservice last September by Thurso's Arun class lifeboat in very heavy weather and with only one engine fully operational has earned her coxswain, Second Coxswain William Munroe,...

ON another page we record one of the most fearful catastrophes that has ever happened on the seas. The burning of the emigrant ship Austria, with 528 persons on board, of whom no less than 471 were drowned, suffocated, or burned to death.<...

SCPPOBTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY OONTHIBUTIOjra.

t — His GBACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUHBERLAKD, P.O.

Chairman — THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., r.p.

JSlfrtiarg — RICHARD Luwis, of the Inner Temple,...