LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

No Day Too Long An Hydrographer's Tale by Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie published by the Pent/and Press at £15.50 ISBN 1 872795 63 3 The chart is such a commonplace item aboard a boat that it is often taken for granted. But spare a...

The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.

This special boat needs a very special battery...

AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.

Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....

JUST A YEAR AGO—that was when the appeal to raise the cost of a Rother class lifeboat to be named Shoreline was first launched. And what has happened in those twelve months? Well, for a start, membership has risen by neatly a third, from...

For tlie Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1875.

A tice, cu tter, of Yarmon th—as-...

Channel Island Lifeboat to go to Cowes, the Jersey boat could not get a crew and the Institution asked the Guernsey boat to fetch her, That was on the 28th. When the Guernsey boat arrived at St. Helier in the evening German aeroplanes were...

Lives 1898. saved.

Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...

PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...