LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 520 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 524 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...

THE ninth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Insti- tution's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with "the help of the Staff at Headquarters, took place on the 7th January, at the Bromley Public Hall.<...

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.

Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.

Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...

Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...

ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...

Part of a lifeguard’s role is to prevent accidents before they happen by giving safety advice – usually on the beach, but sometimes in the heart of the city …

'Help, help,’ shouts an 11-year-old girl to her friend....