LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Illustration from THE LIFEBOAT, February 1881, of the wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate lifeboat, Bradford, in tow of the tug Vulcan..

Thursday, 8th October, 1891.

Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 7.20 p.m. on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about one mile seawards of Church Ope Cove.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...

To aaaompany the Life Boat Journal.

WRECK CHART OF THE BRITISH ISLES FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.

(Compiled from the Board of Trade Wreck Register), Showing the Wrecks and serious Casualties. Also the Lifeboat...

THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...

Dec. 12, 1858. — The French lugger Louise Amelie, of Nantes, was wrecked, during a gale of wind, in Dundrum Bay. The Institution's lifeboat, stationed at Newcastle, put off and rescued the crew of 5 men.—Expense of service,...

LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...

For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...