LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
NEW YEAR – NEW KNOWLEDGE
Start 2017 by boosting your maritime knowledge.
Our collection of New Year reads will also give you plenty of
impressive facts to share at what’s left of the festive party season!
For salty...
Category: Articles
Services by Shore-Boats (4)
FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 8 P.M. on the 19th April, 1939, a small yawl with a party of five boys on board got into difficulties and could not make Fraserburgh Harbour. The sea was choppy with a squally increasing S.S.W. breeze....
Category: Services
The Help of Theatres and Cinemas
IN The, Lifeboat for last February an account was given of the help received from cinemas during the display of two films, " Down to the Sea in Ships " and " Women Who Give," which had Life-boat interest. These films were...
Category: Articles
Walmer Life-Boat Station from the Air
Walmer Life-Boat Station From The Air. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Address your letters to: The Editor, The Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ or email us at: [email protected] All submissions should be clearly marked 'for publication' In reply to the letter from GM Reid...
Category: Correspondence
Lymington Branch
Lymington branch had another very successful day at Beattlieu Boat Jumble on Sunday April 4, with a total turnover of £1,886. This year, one section of the stall was devoted to 'Bits from Famous Boats', which included a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Two calls A RED FLARE was sighted off shore by the honorary secretary of Withernsea lifeboat station and a shore helper at 2025 on Sunday July 27, 1980. Maroons were fired and while the two men were preparing the D class inflatable lifeboat...
Commander T. Holmes R.N. Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
Commander T Holmes RN Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Station
(See Diagrams on next page.) 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...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
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...
Category: Articles