LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....

FRASERBURGH.—The fishing boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the E.N.B., and a heavy sea on the 1st November, it was considered advisable to launch the. Life-boat Cosmo and Charles at 12.15 P.M., so as to encourage the crews...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...

Canada Coast to Coast Vancouver to the Rockies and Nova Scotia Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialist on this epic 18-day journey across Canada. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit...

RESCUE BY LIFE-BOAT AND CANOES Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1963, a boy called at the second coxswain's house to inform him that a speed boat had capsized outside Cullercoats...

A new branch was formed in Maidstone, Kent, during March (chairman B. Birchall and honorary secretary P. Clarke) and it has set itself a target of £1,000 for 1975. Anyone in the area who would like to help will be...

THE Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal to Mr. Hugh MacKay, Senr., of Hilton, on the north-east coast of Rossshire on the Moray Firth, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to four other men for their gallantry in attempting to save a...

WE deeply lament to record the death of Mr. LYALL, the much-respected Deputy- Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which event took place on the 12th October.

Mr. LYALL was the son of the late Mr. GEOEGE LYALL,...