LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) the Final Product, the First Severn
(Left) The final product, the first Severn - in prototype form at least. Four hectic years have passed from the first Operational Requirements, through concept, design, testing, modification, development and operational trials .
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Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
The Story of the "Trevessa's" Boats
Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette has just published as a pamphlet the logs kept by the Master and Chief Officer of the Trevessa, during the voyages of the two boats of that vessel after she sank in the Indian Ocean, on 4th June last.<...
Category: Articles
The Old Boathouse
with the motor life-boal Henry Frederick Swan, on her trolley at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Face In the Cliffs
Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Jan., 1871: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees. The...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
To the President, from the Gold Coast
SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
Category: Correspondence
The Lighthouse Tender Pharos
Arbroath, Angus. — At 11.30 P.M.
on the 16th November, 1938, the police reported that the lighthouse tender Pharos was to land a sick lightkeeper from the Bell Rock. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was too...