LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...

Wells, Norfolk—At about 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of July, 1948, information was received from the coastguard that a ship, twenty miles to the north-east of Wells, had had an explosion in the engine-room and a doctor was needed. The...

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Are you sifting comfortably? Back pain has now officially reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Sixty percent of adults annually suffer problems, with thirty per cent becoming chronic sufferers. Our backs are vulnerable. Poor posture in...

PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...

The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...

(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...

When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.

It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...