LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AN INEXPERIENCED CREW Stromness, Orkneys.—At midnight on the 15th of July, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Curlew, of Kirkwall, had left Rousay at about nine o'clock for Kirk- wall but that nothing had been...

% From the Blue Circle Group, Portland House, Stag Place, London, S.W.I, comes news of an interesting cement application in ship building.

Recently cement mortar covering was applied to the largest yacht in the United...

Pangbourne branch is affiliated to Weymouth lifeboat station, and a framed colour photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell, presented by Weymouth crew, was unveiled at the Swan Inn, Pangbourne, on December 8 by Chantal d'Orthez,... - View image in PDF

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.- - On the 13th January the Life-boat Colonel Stock was launched during foggy weather to the assistance of the ketch The Fane, of Bridgwater, which had stranded at Sand Point. There was a ' strong westerly...

THE DEATH of Captain Nigel Dixon was a serious and sudden loss to the RNLI.

He became Secretary of the Institution.

a t i t l e which was later altered to that of Director, at a difficult time in 1970. Not...

THE following letter, written by Mrs.

Eileen I. McCormick of 5 Craighillgrove, Clarkston, Glasgow, was published by the Scottish Sunday Express on the 31st of May, 1959, and is reproduced by kind permission of the editor:...

PEEHAPS the most charming thing in Patrick Howarth's most attractive book* is the way in which he has set his story. As he moves round the coast, apparently quite casually, from one carefully chosen life-boat station to another, he...

Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from...