LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOUB years ago a lady living at Wylde Green, near Birmingham, asked the Prince of Wales to give her six penny stamps as capital to start a business on behalf of the Life-boat Service. The Prince sent the stamps, and a flourishing business,...

JANUARY 4TH. - RUNSWICK, YORK.

SHIRE. The motor life-boat Robert Patton - The Always Ready was launched at 1 P.M in an E.S.E. wind with a heavy sea, as the Staithes fishing fleet was out and there would be considerable...

Something special ? Wright away sir! TANKS For almost Haifa century Wrights have specialised in the fabrication of tanks from 5 to 50,000 gallons in stainless steel, aluminium, or mild steel, either one-off or on a production run. We are...

YACHT TOWED TO SAFETY AT 4.45 p.m. on 20th November, 1971, information was received that the yacht Solstice was firing red flares in a position four miles west of Les Hanois light, Guernsey, C.I. Fifteen minutes later the St. Peter Port life...

Rescues by IRBs in August were carried out by the following stations: Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a small boat was reported drifting out to sea off Moelfre island. The IRB was launched at 5 o'clock in a moderate...

all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF

KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...

Z-BOATS to the rescue...

Oulboj'd En-Jin* InUfrtl Trillion Mittrtii n.rr bottom board*! M-in hull of S icpjritt Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capableof...