LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Trinity House by J. GROSVENOR (Staples Press, 15/-.) is a factual and ably written account of the work of the great organisation which received its charter in 1514 and which today is responsible for so many essential services, including the...

LXIX. TRAMORE.—The Alfred Trower, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.

IT may not be out of place to preface this article with a description of the old and interesting city of Waterford, which is in close proximity to Tramore, and...

AT the Caxton Hall, on Monday, 13th December, the Mayor of West- minster (Mi. S. P. B. Bueknill) presided at the presentation of the prizes won in the Competition in the London area (consisting of the schools under the London County Council)...

IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...

On January 12th, 1868, a large iron ship, the Oasis, of Liverpool, struck on the rocks west of the Metal Mail, Newtown Head, in a south-easterly gale.

The Cambridge University life-boat, Tom Egan, was launched, and reached...

Cliff-climbing lifeboatman saves boy Lifeboat crews are highly trained in many fields so they will be prepared when out on a shout. But there are a few services where RNLI training cannot help, where it is up to the individual to do...

ON the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow life-boat towed in the yacht Desina which had lost her rudder in heavy seas. One of the yacht's crew wrote to the coxswain: "On behalf of the two other crew members and myself, I wish to...

So light and easy to use...

Weighing less than 4lbs it cleans everywhere, quickly with no fuss and simply stores away.

Converts to a hand vac...

With its own carry handle making it ideal...