LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Another crew back to oars . . . Walton and Frinton crew and launchers row three tons of boarding boat: Coxswain Frank Bloom (on tiller), Derek Halls, Jim Berry, Bryan Ward, Steve Betson, Jack Barrett and Bobby Kemp.. - View image in PDF

BLAKENEY, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently stationed a life-boat at Blakeney, at the north extremity of Norfolk, at which place a crew of fishermen perished last year in attempting to rescue a shipwrecked crew. This...

(See page 263). - View image in PDF

OFF the mouth of the River Yare, which divides the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and has given its name to the ancient seaport town of Yarmouth, stretch a series of sandbanks, such as the Scroby, the Cross Sand, and the Cockle, to name...

A YACHTSMAN who bought and con- verted one of the Institution's 35-feet 6-inch life-boats writes of her to the Yachting Monthly.

"Sailing performance is far beyond my expectations. With plate down she never...

THE jubilee celebrations of the Swedish Life-boat Society were held at Gothenburg from the 17th to the 19th of May. Captain V. M. Wyndham-Quin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Colonel A. D.

Burnett Brown...

and girls 152. The prize for the best essay has now been won nine times by girls and seven times by boys (a boy and a girl tying for it in 1933).

The Awards.

Alice Chambers will receive a copy of...

Over fifty R.N.L.I.

life boats are now equipped with HECTA echo sounders The HECTA Echo-sounder is designed for indefinite use in open cockpits. It's simple meter-type display provides a very clear indication of depth...