LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr Alastair Barrow, chairman of the Reading RNLI young enthusiasts, writes that they are all about 15 years old and for the last two years have been trying to raise the £1,000 needed to buy a 15-foot ILB. In this connection a sponsored...

On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.

Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...

PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 NOTES OF THE QUARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, the French life-boat society with headquarters in Paris, no longer has pulling and sailing life-boats in its fleet, as mentioned in the March issue. Its fleet consists of 56 motor life-boats...

CHILD WAS SICK At 3.45 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the local doctor received a request from Inishmaan Island to attend to a sick child. There was a slight sea with a gentle north-westerly breeze. It was high water. At 4.30 the life-boat...

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS A VITAL SERVICE TO THE R.N.L.I.

Coastal Radio - the privileged exclusive supplier of M.F. Radio and D.F.

equipment for over 180 R.N.L.I. Lifeboats over the past 15...

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS A VITAL SERVICE TO THE R.N.L.I.

Coastal Radio - the privileged exclusive supplier of M.F. Radio and D.F.

equipment for over 180 R.N.L.I. Lifeboats over the past 15...

(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