LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Abertay Lightvessel
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Abertay lightvessel had fallen down the engine-room...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
'THE Year of the Lifeboat', as 1974 is to be known, will be an occasion for everyone connected with the lifeboat service to feel both pride and humility.
A record of 150 years of voluntary service, as a result of...
Category: Articles
The First of the Atlantic 21S,
The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.f., Chairman of the Institution , in the Chair. ' Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward....
Category: Committee
Feature: the Lifeboat College
Shaping the future It feels Like a long time since the RNLI announced it intended to build a training college in Poole. Construction started in 2002 and since then hundreds of men and women have laboured to make The Lifeboat College vision a...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the...
Category: Articles
The Lowestoft Trawler Renovate
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 6 a.m. on 5th July, 1967, it was learned that the cargo boat Erctonia of Goole had the Lowestoft trawler Renovate in tow with engine trouble. The cargo boat had requested for the tow to be taken over. The life-boat...