LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth Working Mens Club have been raising cash for Weymouth lifeboat station branch for the past three years.. - View image in PDF

Paul Chapman - divisional base West Station Mechanic/Divisional Technician.

Mrs Lillian Rodgers, chairman of New Romney & Romney Marsh branch. She also held the posts of lifeboat week organiser from 1965 to 1981, box secretary from 1981 to 1988 and was souvenirs secretary from 1988 to 1991. Mrs Rodgers was...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a message had been received from a resident at Hove that the crew of a small boat about two miles off the King Alfred...

Lifeboat stations can be in very scenic surroundings, such as here at Conwy in Gwynedd, where the boathouse for the station's D class is almost in the shadow of the famous , castle, and backs on to part of the Town... - View image in PDF

is now some seventeen years since we felt it our duty to call the attention of the public to the lamentable disuse into which ; the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since that period great advances have been made in teaching this important...

_ _ Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.

—A telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life Saving Service at about 6.30 A.M. on the 15th September, 1939, asking that the life-boat should be sent out...

and Barra Island's 52ft Barnett R. A. Colby Cubbin No 3 (below right, photograph by courtesy of HMS Gannett) are fitted with emergency air bags to give them a righting capability. The bags are seen here inflated after the two boats had... - View image in PDF