LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Not content with just the ordinary duties of a lifeboat crew, the men from Salcombe have proved themselves to be as much of a fund-raising team as they are a lifesaving team. Last year, through the crew's efforts alone, £4,267 was... - View image in PDF

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...

At 1.5 A.M. on the 6th December a message was received, stating that a steamer was ashore at Druridge Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Mary Andrew were at once called, the Life-boat was launched at 1.30 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...

Awards for saving drowning man...

Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...

PERHAPS Mr. Plimsoll, in the interest of Saving Life at Sea, has done no more useful thing than pressing on the atten- tion of Parliament the necessity for addi- tional precautions and legal requirements to prevent the shifting of grain and...

POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...

To save lives at sea our brave crews have to be well-trained and well-equipped.

This is why we need you, with a Lifeboats MasterCard, onboard. Sign up today and The Royal Bank of Scotland will donate £10 to the RNLI....

TOP VIEW OP A TWO-CYLINDER RAFT.

SIDE VIEW SHOWING STRINGER PIECES, ETC.

SECTIONAL VIEW, CUT TRANSVEBBELT, OF A THREE-CYLINDER RAFT.

THE recent passage across the Atlantic Ocean, from...