LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PERHAPS the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships, has been the unfitness for "other purposes of any such articles commonly in use. Thus it may...

In this issue News 2 Letters 9 Feature From saving goals to saving lives 10 A football tournament on Bournemouth beach in the summer kicked off a fun day of fundraising 14 Lifeboats in action Amazing rescues - including accounts of one...

The next generation of E class lifeboat can now be seen on the Thames. Hurley Burly is the first of three new E class lifeboats to be shared by Tower and Chiswick Lifeboat Stations. Two more are due to join our fleet in...

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Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...

GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS Arctic Circle Express 15 DAY HOLIDAY TO SCANDINAVIA & THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on a magnificent 15-day tour of Norway and Sweden. A friendly and professional...

Twelve members of Lloyds Bank branches all over the City were among the many hundreds of RNLI supporters who were out selling flags on London Lifeboat Day last March; the Lloyds contingent collected £536.66. The total sum collected on... - View image in PDF

coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...

THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...