LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Rick Tomlinson A Trent class lifeboat on trials off Cowes in winds gusting to 50 knots. This is one of many spectacular photos which appear in Rick Tomlinson's 1996 Lifeboat Calendar. Details on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...
Category: Correspondence
The 35-H.P. Clayton Agricultural Tractor Used for Launching a Life-Boat In the Trials at Hunstanton
The 35-HP Clayton Agricultural Tractor Used For Launching A Life-Boat In The Trials at Hunstanton. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
Category: Articles
Portland
Are you sifting comfortably? Back pain has now officially reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Sixty percent of adults annually suffer problems, with thirty per cent becoming chronic sufferers. Our backs are vulnerable. Poor posture in...
Category: Advertisement
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Left: 'Ramsey Bus Station' Travel By Stilts.
Left: 'Ramsey bus station' travel by stilts.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dispatches
Dispatches RNLI Photographer of the Year 2006 The first ever RNLI Photographer of the Year competition, open to everyone at the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units, recorded the drama of working in a lifesaving environment using...
Category: Articles
Contents
Lifeboat In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Including the service at Lerwick which led to a Gold Medal, five Bronze Medals and two Thanks on Vellum Safety in Numbers 18 The RNLI has fought...
Category: Contents
Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—Several fishing cobles were returning home on the morning of the 18th March when the sea rapidly rose and rendered it highly dangerous for the boats to cross the bar. Two of them had very narrow escapes of broaching-to and being...