LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...

On July 6 HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited three Scottish lifeboat stations: Invergordon and Macduff, both established in 1974, and Buckle, established in I860. At each the Duke inspected the lifeboat and met lifeboatmen,... - View image in PDF

On the 22nd March, at 9.15 P.M., flares were seen from a vessel on the Barber Sand, by the beach- men. They launched the surf-boat Boys, and went to the Sand, but could not get within a warp's length of the vessel, as there was no water...

A LAMENTABLE case of wreck, attended with great loss of life, and one highly dis- creditable to our country, we regret to say, occurred at the Hook Point, Waterford, early in the present year. We would gladly be spared the pain of recording...

Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 3rd February last, at the age of sixty-five.

He had retired only five months before on account of ill health. Appointed Coxswain in 1915, he...

1949 £ i. d.

188,742 6 4 289 10 6 52,029 6 11 7,139 18 4 173 15 10 84,005 5 4 16,391 1 - 880' 11 6 2,256 19 6 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1950 Expenditure ...

Launches 49 Lives rescued 252

DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured...

electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.LI, and to att yachts of the successful British Admiral's Cup team. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is...