LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

First service for new station's Arun The lifeboat scheduled to go on service at Fenit, an RNLI station being re-established on the west coast of Ireland (see 'Chalk and Cheese', this issue) was involved in her first service on 25...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.30 on the morning of the 7th of November, 1952, the life-boat E.M.E.D. left Harwich for her station, after towing in the motor barge Sway. At the same time the Walton-on-the-Naze j coastguard telephoned the...

Ten new beaches will be watched over by RNLI lifeguards this year, making a total of 224 safer spots for your Summer.

The service covers top holiday hotspots in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey, and...

THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...

In acknowledging the R.N.L.I.'s thanks for his services as chaplain to the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, the Rev. George Waddington, who is taking up a new appointment at Paisley, is further offering his...

Chairman of the Bradford Branch, and also of his work as Chairman of the Bradford Life-boat Bazaar, has been elected a Vice- President of the Institution.

The following awards have also been made :—• To the Rev. T. N....

AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...

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Body Plan. Midship Section.

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and...