LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...

TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.

In 1970 they raised £20,000...

" Losses at Sea: their Causes and Means of Prevention, embracing several other subjects of importance for the Safe Navigation of Vessels." By J. H. RIDLEY, Master in the Merchant Service. London, published for the Author, 1854....

• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).

Mr Smith,...

THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...

Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.

For years I have lived alongside a famous...

Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...

Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...