LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...

Fourth lottery THE FOURTH NATIONAL LOTTERY of the RNLI was drawn by Ed (Stewpot) Stewart on Wednesday January 31 at RNLI headquarters, Poole. Supervising the draw were Major-General Ralph H. Farrant, chairman of the Committee of Management,...

Keith Thatcher, RNLI Naval Architect, continues a series of profiles of lifeboat classes Many people's image of a lifeboat launch is of a boat plummeting down a slipway into rough seas, disappearing into a cloud of spray at the foot of...

Winning fundraising friendsHarmony in Exeter An excellent way for branches and guilds to raise money within their community is to ask groups, clubs, businesses and individuals to do a fundraising event for their branch or guild.

THE recently published Annual Report of the Scottish Fishery Board is full of interesting and useful information on this very important part of the national industries and food supplies.

This Board, as at present...

NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.

The Dungeness life-boat, the...

During the past summer the coasts of England, Scotland and Wales, have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom, in a great measure owing to the pestilential condition of some parts of the Continent. We heard on all...

. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...