LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
The Motor Fishing Boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee
At 11.30 A.M. on the 29th December the local motor fishing boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee were expected home. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with rain showers and fog, and a strong sea, coming with the flood tide, was...
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main ' body. The latter is formed of a keelway i and of side or bilgeways attached to the j...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by Ti feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-eases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
Saved By Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation
The mechanic of the Hastings life-boat, Mr. J. H. Martin, and Police Sergeant S. Ferguson of Hastings have both received framed letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for...
Category: Articles
A turn for the worse
Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.
But their mood changed when the wind...
Category: Articles
Welcome
Our supporters, volunteers and lifesavers all seem to have a favourite bit of coastline that means something to them – what’s yours?
Whether it’s a remote, rugged shoreline or gentle seaside spot, there’s a desire to visit...
Category: Contents
Teamwork By Pilot Winchman and Coxswain
Teamwork by pilot, winchman and coxswain. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Culdrose. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Days In 1948
IN 1947 the Institution held 859 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,154,000, and the sum given was £87,920.
That was 42 more days than in 1947, but the number who gave fell by nearly 400,000 and the sum...
Category: Donations
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1899
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DEBBY, K.G., G.C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. The I as well as by the numerous " Life- EARL OF DEBBY, KG., G.C.B.
Seconded by The Hon. W. F. D. SMITH, M.P.<...
Category: Meetings