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A Catamaran

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Selsey, Sussex. At 5.31 on the even- ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran had capsized a quarter of a mile south of Selsey Bill.

The life-boat Canadian Pacific...

Two Steamers

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

16th June.

Two steamers had been in collision in a thick fog off Trevose Head, but the life-boat could not find them. She came across another steamer, which got into touch with one of the steamers by wireless, and learnt...

Work/lifesaving balance

Date: Winter 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 606 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2013

The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...

Category: Articles

Luke John

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

Tyne class in five-hour search The Mumbles lifeboat crew, below, discuss operations with police divers during a service on 24 November 1991 to local charter fishing boat Luke John.

The casualty sunk at anchor within two...

Four Keel Boats

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.10 a.m. on i8th March, 1966, with the weather deteriorating and the local fishing fleet at sea, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepwonh was launched at 9.30 in a north westerly gale, rough sea and flooding tide. She escorted...

Annual General Meeting 1966

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

The next annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 20th April, 1966..

Category: Meetings

Annual General Meeting

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

The next annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Tuesday, 2nd April, 1963..

Category: Meetings

Little Culverden

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Hastings, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 8.17 A.M. on the 18th November t6 search for the local open fishing boat Little Culverden, which was missing. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...

Amateur Life-Boatman's Gallantry

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

WHILE the engineers of the Institution were engaged in constructing the new launching Slipway at Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire, for the Motor Life-boat which was sent to that Station in March last, the foreman in charge of the works Mr. T...

Category: Articles

(Below) Class Reinforced Plastic

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

(Below) Class reinforced plastic boats are laid up inside a mould so that a prescribed hull shape can be turned out time and again.

Each hull is laid up as a single piece of continuous material from stem to stern, with no... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs