LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE admirably arranged and deeply interesting Tables compiled from the wreck register which the BOARD OF TRADE publishes each year, bring vividly before the mind the terrible loss of life and property which annually takes place on our coasts...

Some people take their pleasure seriously Boat owners who take pleasure seriously, take a very dim view of anything that interrupts their pursuit of happiness.

This simple fact is causing more skippers to choose CAT Marine...

MARCH Launches 36 Lives rescued 12

MARCH 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

The fishing fleet was out in bad weather, with strong squalls from the north, snow showers and a rough sea, and at 11.30 in the morning,...

ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.

The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.

By the time you...

Buy a rose for the RnLI Chris was ‘shocked and fl attered’ to be invited by the national Rose Society to put his name to one of the new 007 series of roses, pictured above: ‘The Rosa Chris Beardshaw, produced by C & K Jones, is big, pink... - View image in PDF

COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEWART DASS, of Longhope, in the Orkneys, died in January of this year. He had retired in 1946, at the age of sixty-eight, after serving for three years as second cox- swain and then over twelve years as...

ONE night in Autumn, lately past, remembered by a chilly blast, That swept o'er all the country wide, While sitting at the warm fireside, I mused on all the trials sore, Of Mariners around our shore; As day by day, the papers tell,...

Ix the early hours of the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel began to drift. The first man on shore to have any suspicion that something might be amiss with the lightvessel was the Deal coastguard, who...