LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...

THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy gales on Christmas night and the following day. During the seven days of the Christmas week, from 21st December to 27th December,...

Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...

France: Fast offshore rescue boat Anne de Bretagne stationed at Le Croisic.. - View image in PDF

ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was flooding. Both main bilge and...

As part of its mission to save lives at sea, the RNLl insists on top level training for lifeboat crews. The hope is that the better trained the lifeboat crews are, the more lives will be saved and the less likely it is that the crews...

Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.

The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...

I.—Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S.

Seconded by Vice-Admiral SIR GEORGE SARTORIUS.

1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.

2.—Moved by GEORGE LYALL, Esq.,...