LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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MAY 23RD. - HYTHE, KENT. At about 8.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul.

There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her...

RIDLEY HOUSE, Felixstowe College, whose interest in the Life-boat Service is so great that it has formed a Ladies' Life-boat Guild within the House, has staged two competitions for the benefit of the Service. One is a general know- ledge...

Governors Shoreline Storm Force Welcome! If you have just joined us as a member of the RNLI through one of our recent advertisements or promotions and are reading THE LIFEBOAT journal for the first time - WELCOME ABOARD! This members page is...

YACHT TOWED TO SAFETY AT 4.45 p.m. on 20th November, 1971, information was received that the yacht Solstice was firing red flares in a position four miles west of Les Hanois light, Guernsey, C.I. Fifteen minutes later the St. Peter Port life...

A Bridlington fishing-boat coming into harbour on 17th January, 1937. The motor lifeboat, though not in the photograph, is escorting her. - View image in PDF

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OCTOBER 2lST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

A parachute had been seen coming down, but only a large patch of oil was found.- Rewards, £36 0s. 6d..

THERE is one very important difference between the designing of a Life-boat and the designing of her engine.

The requirements of the Institution, so far as hulls are concerned, are quite special. No other small craft are...