LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF

Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...

(Right) Roy Caws of Cowes Base Explains The Finer Points of A D Class Inflatable To A Visitor at Cowes. - View image in PDF

MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...

IN accordance with the policy laid down by the Committee of Management some time ago, the scale of' Rewards given to the Coxswains and Crews of Life-boats for going afloat to save life has again been raised, the higher Rewards taking...

THERE has been a good world-wide response to the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association which, as announced in the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, was launched by Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, at the International...

RNLI DVD Lifeboats SAFE in their hands NEW! Featuring the building and never-before-seen action of the RNLI's latest all weather and inshore lifeboats, the Tamar and Atlantic 85 classes £9.99 inc p&p Please send this slip with a...

COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...