LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...

Few of Scarborough's summer visitors realise the extent of the lifeboat slipway, much of which is now buried by the rising level of the sand. Recent investigations showed it to be in remarkably good condition.

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Weymouth lifeboat craw were conducting a man overboard exercise on Sunday 19 May 2002 when an unexpected guest came along to land a helping flipper.

Randy the dolphin is a popular local celebrity in the area and appeared... - View image in PDF

On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of the Life...

LIZARD.—On the 15th June the Lifeboat proceeded to the aid of the brig Scotscraig, of Dundee, which had grounded directly below the Lizard lighthouses during a thick fog. After some hours' labour the vessel was extricated from her...

" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.

I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...

Whan the building of life-boats came almost to a standstill at the end of 194°, the Institution's own machine-shop began to make munitions of war.

At first it made ordnance fittings. In the middle of 1941 it was...

(S«e Diagrams «« next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house...