LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1903, there were embraced in the Life-saving Service of the United States no less than 273 stations, 196 of which were established on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60. on the...

One breezy Autumn evening at dusk, a passenger vessel travelling along the River Thames collided with Tower Pier in central London. Upriver at Chiswick, another incident unfolded

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As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...

COXSWAIN GEORGE SWARTS, of Barry Dock, Glamorganshire, has won a bronze medal in the shipping class at the Model Engineering Exhibition held in London, with a model of the life-boat at The Mumbles..

(Right) Trevor Evans, overseer ILB (Cowes) who has been concerned with the development, fitting out and maintenance of the D class inflatable lifeboat from the verv beginning.. - View image in PDF

Fig. 7: Emergency low profile slot aerial, less vulnerable than the main aerial, mounted on the engine casing of a Rother class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

Lady Tollemache, joint donor with her late husband, Major General Sir Humphry Tollemache, of the Eastbourne D class lifeboat The Humphry and Nora Tollemache..

(Below right) Grace Darling, the last Liverpool class to be built tin 19541, and also on display at Chatham, shows the typical shape of a non selfrighting lifeboat of the era.. - View image in PDF