LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots,...

JANUARY.

Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.

JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...

Race to the Pole
by James Cracknell
and Ben Fogle

Review by Charlie Cash

After conquering the perils of the Atlantic Ocean in an open boat, most people would wallow in the...

Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.

The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION, INSCRIBED ON VELLUM, has been awarded to the following :— Mr. J. LEWIS, on his retirement, after 31J years as honorary secretary of the Holy- head branch....

lives depend on the RNL1. And the kind of dependability the RNLI needs to save them is Champion dependability.

So Champiow spark plugs are fitted exclusively to the "vinrude Ski-Twin 40 h.p. engines which power their...

THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...

End of voyage A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC made a 999 call to the Police early on the morning of Saturday October 16, 1982, reporting a catamaran flashing a white light about 100 yards off Sidmouth Beach, 9Vz miles east north east of Exmouth...

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.21 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor ship Ferm, of Grimstad, Norway, which was out- ward bound, had wirelessed that a member of her crew had...