LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...

Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and...

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...

The lions of Trafalgar stand guard as volunteers and supporters man the displays and collect cash {above) while Stanley Potter aka Stormy Stan fteftl looks after the children.. - View image in PDF

ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...

LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...

Following the success of last year's exhibition at the Templars Secondary School in Stepney an even more impressive show was put on this year, to coincide with London Life-boat Day. Pride of place was given to an I.R.B. Other exhibits...