LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Falmouth: The 52ft Arun lifeboat Elizabeth Ann is named at the Customs House Quay. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'. - View image in PDF

A COPY of a firm's catalogue of tools and machinery has been received ad- dressed to the Institution's " Machinery and Drowning Department.".

MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board...

SCOTLAND Broughty Ferry, Angus - At 8.45 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, a small yacht wasseen to capsize near the Craig buoy. At this time another three yachts were also capsized by a sudden squall. The yacht club rescue boat while attempting to...

IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...

Welded aluminium construction is lighter than steel and is well suited to the construction of carriage launched lifeboats, where steel is too heavy and abrasion problems make GRP unsuitable. - View image in PDF

THE SCENE OF ACTION now moves from the design office to the boatyard (William Osborne Ltd, Littlehampton) which will have been sent the lines plan of the boat (illustrated at very small scale at the foot of this page). It is the lines plan...