LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At 8.53 at night the coastguard reported that the R.A.F. high speed launch 170 was ashore on the rocks under Buckie coastguard station. A strong squally W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...

(Continued from page 215.) THERE remains to be considered the distribution of lights on a coast and the positions in which they should be placed.

It will be readily conceived that, important as it is to produce a brilliant...

THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...

On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat, Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest life-boat in the Institution's fleet.

At five...

IN 1947 the Lord Mayor of Sydney started what came to be known as the Australian Express Parcel Scheme for sending food parcels to Great Britain.

Two years later, on November 29th, 1949, the two-millionth parcel was...

TO MARK THE FRIENDSHIP and mutual goodwill shown during the bicentennial celebrations of the American Declaration of Independence a number of leading Americans in Britain have decided to appeal to their fellow citizens to provide a new...

Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...

IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...