LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...

ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...

STAYING IN TOUCH Are you a former RNLI station volunteer or staff member? The RNLI Family association can help you keep in touch if you are no longer so actively involved. When you join you’ll get a membership pack and two issues a year of...

30 January: Teignmouth lifeboat rescued five fishermen from a capsized trawler near the mouth of the River Teign. Volunteer Press Officer Tony Watson says: ‘This just shows that accidents can happen, even to...

Ix April 1954 it was decided to make certain changes in the appointments of the life-boat district inspectors in view of the impending retirement of the Southern District Inspector. At the same time it was decided to reorganise the districts...

A 33FT BREDE class lifeboat, 33-02, is now at Oban undergoing station evaluation trials.

The Brede is a new type of lifeboat based on a commercial GRP hull. As a result of initial development work her wheelhouse has been...

Alarms and double glazing are not sufficient to deter burglars! Safeguard your home and your office SLIDING INTERIOR WINDOW PROTECTION W B HB Hl BBHI Now you can sleep with your windows open without.

fear of intruders It is...

OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...