LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In 1966 the value of the inshore rescue boat as a means of saving life at sea has been proved beyond all possible doubt. It was only in 1963 that these boats were first used operationally, largely as an experiment. So successful have they...

Barra Island Arun class Ann Lewis Fraser Barra Island lies at the southern tip of the Western Isles, and the community of Castle Bay is the home of the lifeboat and also the terminal for the ferry which, with the daily air flight, is the...

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—A new sailingboat of the Norfolk type has been despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION to Winterton, to take the place of one stationed there some years since. The new craft was built by Messrs. BEECHING...

Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.

DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.

LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...

Minehead, Somerset.—At 10.35 on the night of the Slst of August, 1951, the Watchet Coastguard Live-saving Company reported that dim flares could be seen off Watchet. Five people were known to have left Barry for Watchet in the motor boat...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lanes.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th of April, 1957, a Preston firm of shipping agents telephoned to say they had received a call from the master of the tanker B.P. Marketer, of London, reporting that a member...

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