LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1946 flag days were held by 808 of the Institution's branches, and 7,919,000 people contributed. This was over two million more than before the war, but three million fewer than in the record year of 1944. The sum contributed in these...

Geoffrey (Vicar Geoff) Williams – Burry Port former Crew Member.

Newspoint Technology and efficiency Technology moves on apace, and any organisation which seeks to stay effective and efficient must move with it.

Lifeboats are continually developing as new techniques and equipment become...

APRIL 4TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.

A British aeroplane had been reported down, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £14 12s. 6d.

(See Ardfern, “ Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats,” page 68.).

Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 7th August the 6,000-ton s.s. San Francisco, of Havre, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and bound laden from Newcastle to Havre, ran aground on Haisborough Sands, about two milesS.E. from Haisborough...

Really good photographs of life-boats at sea in rough weather are almost impossible to come by. Photographs of actual rescue operations are almost as rare. This is an understandable state of affairs, for the life-boat is, by the nature of...

THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...