LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWIN ENGINED inflatable lifeboats have been designated the C class. This is to distinguished them from the single engined 15ft 6in D class inflatables, well known all round the coast. All C class boats at the moment are 17ft 6in Zodiac Mk IV...

JULY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

During the evening of the 20th the life-boat crew were assembled as an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the call was cancelled. Later flashes were reported and the...

breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. The life-boat made for the position given, W. by S. 1/4S., 36 1/4 miles from Porthdinllaen Point. It was very difficult to see in the continuous rain and, when at midnight the life-boat...

Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal and U. to Mr.

JAMES MACKAY for saving two boys by swimming at great risk to a boat, which, had been swamped while attempting to cross the Bar of Tongue, tine Margaret, of Rye, which was...

By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.

SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...

Father and son stranded FOUR MINUTES from the time the honorary secretary was alerted, Hastings' 16ftD class inflatable lifeboat was launched, manned by Helmsman Chris Cooper and Crew Members Graham Furness and Steven Martin. It was 1604...

TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 20th December the Life-boat China rescued the crew of a fishing boat, 3 in number, who had been overtaken by a high wind and sea, and were in danger of being wrecked on the bar off the port, on which a heavy sea was...

On the 29th December, the brigantine Test, of Portmadoc, was on a voyage from Bristol to that port, when her ballast shifted and she had to hoist signals for assistance. In response thereto, the John Gray Bell Life-boat was launched, and...