LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE EXPERIENCES of a number of lifeboats in the severe gales last winter led to the appointment in February, 1978 of a working party to examine what more could be done to reduce the dangers facing lifeboat crews in extreme conditions....

WE are indebted to THOMAS GRAY, Esq., the talented Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for the following interesting song adapted to the well-known music " Heart of Oak." Messrs. CHAPPELL of Bond...

a ABERDEEN ON-124B(l7-24):Aug13, Aug 19 D-53&Aug9 ABERDOVEY B-758:Aug4,AugZ4.Aug26 ABERSOCH 8-582: Aug 3, Aug 26, Aug 29 ABERYSTWYTH B-704: Aug 4. Aug 1 7(x2), Aug 20{x2). Aug 22, Aug 24. Aug 30 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1228 (14-24): Aug 14, Aug...

Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.

September Meeting.

Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 11 A.M. on the...

NOWHERE on the coast of Scotland, or, indeed, on the coasts of the British Isles, has the Institution an Honorary Secre- tary who has worked harder and more successfully for the cause than Mr. Bertram at Dunbar.

For...

IN June we were honoured by a visit from the COMTE DE BIZEMONT, the Chief Inspector of our sister service in France, and we need hardly say it was a great pleasure to welcome him and show him what he required to see. Among other things the...

• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...

A RECENT accident to one of our English fleet of Life-boats has once more enlisted the sympathies of the British people, and called forth their admiration of the humanity, courage, and endurance displayed by our sea-coast boatmen in their en...