LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...

Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...

AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht was off Hove, with a strong on-shore breeze blowing from the south-west, and a rough sea. The...

LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...

Three days afterwards the same Life- >oat was called out to the aid of the icrring boat British Sovereign, which had Iriven on the Annat Bank. When the jife-hoat reached her she was taking the «a heavily on the starboard quarter and...

SWANAGE.—At about 5 A.M. on the 7th March, the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched during a gale from the S.S.E.

and a heavy sea, in response to signals of distress from the schooner William Maskill, of Goole, bound from...