LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Democratic Republic of Germany: Poel is one of East Germany's 17.9m lifeboats; speed 10 knots. The service also has two rescue cruisers and inflatable inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF

Harrow County School, Middlesex, in April got sponsors for ''bar billiards'.

Five boys played billiards continually for 72 hours, thereby breaking the world record for this type of event. At the time it was...

South Western Division Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported Plymouth deputy launching authority 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater,...

FOR the rescue of six people from a motor fishing boat on the 21st February, 1968, Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry.

At 12.40 a.m. on that day, the Buckie...

USA COAST TO COAST 2003 Departure Dates and Costs 22 April £2250 8.22 July £2490 6 May £2350 2.9 Sept £2490 3 June £2390 30 Sept £2390 17 June £2490 New York to the Rockies and California Travel with the...

Protective clothing for crews of conventional lifeboats is presently supplied by Functional Clothing Co. Ltd. Small modifications to the normal design, including the addition of a hood, are made specially for the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF

THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.

can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...

CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat which has done duty at Cress- well since 1889 has been replaced by a new boat of the self-righting Ruble type, 34 ft. long by 8 ft. wide, fitted with one water-ballast tank and rowing 10 oars double...