LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To become a fully competent lifesaver, crew members need to develop a wide range of skills. The RNLI has developed a Competence Based Training system that helps crew members acquire these skills and maintain them through lifeboat station...

At 2 A.M.

| on 15th November, during a strong S.E.

! gale and very heavy sea, signals of | distress were observed from a vessel I about five miles from Ballycotton. The | alarm was given, ...

ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—About 8 A.M.

on the 27th February a telephone message was received stating that a steamer was blowing a succession of short blasts from a foghorn and immediately afterwards another message an-ived...

• Ship wiring cables and flexible curds manufactured by British Insulated ("allcnder's Cables Ltd are being used almost exclusively in the latest vessels being built for the RNLI. Such cables have to conform to rigorous standards...

Among the many movements to which the philanthropic spirit of the age has given birth, few are entitled to a larger share of public sympathy and support than such as have for their object the well-being and im- provement of those classes...

A tug of war across the river, or for one of these gallant but presumably doomed young competitors, over the river.

This was just one of the ways that pupils from Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, succeeded in raising... - View image in PDF

New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...

Gary Stanbury pictured at the helm amongst the sandbanks Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF