LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
Category: Articles
Glorfindel II
Yacht crew landed ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976, at 1720 Eyemouth Coastguard informed the deputy launching authority of St Abbs ILB station that the yacht Glorfindel II, moored in St Abbs outer harbour, was in danger of being swamped. A...
West Country Doctor Honoured
DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.
At...
Category: Awards
Cold sweat
Panic can paralyse. For nutritional therapist Julie Brooks (45), it struck during an activity she had completed many times before – walking from her holiday digs in Lydstep, Pembrokeshire, to Tenby. But this time, the tide came in quicker...
Category: Articles
Train of Thought
Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.
'Fire!...
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Marie May (1)
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
A New Life-Boat Engine
THERE is one very important difference between the designing of a Life-boat and the designing of her engine.
The requirements of the Institution, so far as hulls are concerned, are quite special. No other small craft are...
Category: Articles
Charles Livingstone
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
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Ceremonies
The naming of Arbroath's new Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape went ahead on 22 April 1994 despite the unfortunate accident sustained by the namer, HRH Princess Alexandra, two days before the ceremony. The Countess of Airlie cvo, wife of...
Category: Inaugurations