LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE subject for the ninth Life-boat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools, held this year, was, " What are the qualities which make the Lifeboatman an example of good citizenship ? " So far as the quality of the essays was...

Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.

Such reliability does...

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

NO PEACE FOR NEWLY WEDS

‘Just another day being married to an RNLI coxswain,’ says newly-wed Trina Sawyer, whose big day with Eastbourne lifeboat Coxswain...

NEW Sonar breakthrough *"--y Figure I. Shallow water with Sand bank hazard.

Early detection of shelving bottoms and rock ledges.

Loudspeaker warns you up to 100 seconds before grounding. Figure 2....

Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.

Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...

22nd April. A speed- boat broke down, but was towed to Torquay by another speed-boat.— Rewards, £9 13s.

IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...

THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...