LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor-vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.

Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers, and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...

THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.

The Calendar.

The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

MAY 17TH . - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 1.18 A.M. the naval authorities at Rosyth asked, through the Fraserburgh coastguard, that the Fraserburgh life-boat should he got ready to launch. A few minutes later the station was...

30 years, 250 rescues later Tom Robertson, the honorary secretary of the Queensferry lifeboat station, received a presentation of binoculars and a certificate at the annual general meeting of the RNLI in Scotland, for 30 years'...

Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF

For about 20 early lifeboats which have been fitted with air bags to give them a self-righting capability, there has been the possibility, in the event of a capsize, that water could enter the mast and find its way through the exhaust system...

Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1944 During the year life-boats were launched 455 times. Of these launches 280 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...