LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

. . . To keep pace with the racing boys, a running commentary from Michael Bentine, who, like many other well-known personalities, gave wonderful support to the RNL1 in 'The Year of the Lifeboat'.. - View image in PDF

NEWHAVEN. — The Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 4 P.M. on the 5th July, and proceeded to the assistance of two fishing luggers, the Louisa and Beauty, of Brighton, each carrying a crew of three men, which were about sixteen miles out...

The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all...

In former numbers of this journal we published a series of papers on "Lights and Lighthouses," to which an account of this the last of our great outlying light- towers will be an appropriate sequel.

As a preamble...

YOUR FAVOURITE HYMNS THE JUBILEE CHOIR 38 INSPIRING AND UPLIFTING HYMNS The Lord's My Shepherd • Count Your Blessings • Bless This House • The Old Rugged Cross • When I Survey The Wondrous Cross • All People That On Earth Do Dwell •...

Atlantic 21 escort IN HIS CAPACITY as harbour master, Helmsman Roger Trigg of Southwold lifeboat station heard at 1625 on Friday January 16 that MFV Concord, a 35ft 6in ex-Liverpool class lifeboat, had broken down three-quarters of a mile...

IN an account of the loss of the ship St. Abbs, on the coast of Madagascar, on the 15th of June, 1855, when 22 persons un- fortunately perished, it is recorded that " a seaman saved himself by tying an empty tin oil-can to his back,...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.

THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.

D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...