LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...

MOELFBE, ANGLESEY.—On the 12th February a very heavy gale from the S.

by W. was experienced, and a large fleet of steamers and sailing craft took refuge in the bay. The storm increased in fury, and the schooner Elizabeth...

DECEMBER 6-7TH. - NEW BRIGH-TON, CHESHIRE. Shortly after five in the evening a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board that the Liverpool steamer Gorsethorn had sent an SOS that she was disabled fifteen miles N.W. by W....

SEPT. 24TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

A message was received from the coastguard at 8 A.M. that a steamer was sinking through enemy action, three or four miles E. by N; from the look-out. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...

The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.

This special boat needs a very special battery...

NEW Sonar breakthrough *"--y Figure I. Shallow water with Sand bank hazard.

Early detection of shelving bottoms and rock ledges.

Loudspeaker warns you up to 100 seconds before grounding. Figure 2....

DURING the last few months several addi- tional life-boat stations have been formed along our coasts, and some old boats replaced by others on an improved construction.

This is an important work, which we hope to see...

Obituary It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: November Mrs Pat Lang, membership secretary and wife of the chairman of Totton branch. Mr and Mrs Lang both joined the branch in 1975, a year after the branch was formed....