LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Part two of our definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat classes. This issue we bring you the inshore fleet and the Institution's only intermediate class… Brede Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class...

Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...

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,...

Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths.

John Doyle Former Fethard station honorary secretary, on 2 September Dick Evans Former Moelfre coxswain, on 14 September Patrick Morrison Mallaig crew member, on...

JUNE 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a barge.

In addition to the two life-boats the motor boarding boat from...

Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 11.10 a.m. on I5th August, 1965, a bather was reported in difficulties half a mile south of the station. At 11.13 the IRB launched in a slight sea and took the bather on board, returning with him to her station...

Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat returning from service on July 24, 1983, at the start of Lyme's Lifeboat Week. Manned by Helmsman John Hodder and Crew Members Robert Irish, Colin Jones and Brian Miller, she had launched...

Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.

May Meeting.

St. Helier, Jersey.—Five men left St.

Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's...