LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...

To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...

During national bed month, David Phipp house furnisher of Ferndown in Dorset, chose to support the RNLI by donating £10 for every bed purchased in March.

At the end of the promotion Ronny Spurr, treasurer of Ferndown... - View image in PDF

DUCKHAMS go out to sea in a Force 8 gale Putting out to sea in a lifeboat on a dirty "winter's night in impossible conditions takes more than a high order of seamanship. It takes guts.

Men and boats are stretched...

On the 18th October the same Life-boat was launched, and assisted the fishing coble Palestine, of Cullercoats, and her crew of 3 men and a boy, safely into harbour..

HARTLEPOOL.—On the 23rd December, at about 7 A.M., the brig Berdinkha, of Hartlepool, ran ashore on the North Sands at half tide. When the tide rose, the sea and wind became stronger, and at about 2.30 P.M. three steam-tugs went to her...

The Baroness Windsor life-boat at Penarth rescued the crew of 11 men of the brig Marie, of Grieffswald, which had stranded on Ranie Spit.

THE records of Life-boat families which have been appearing in The Lifeboat show how strong a part the influence of heredity plays in the manning of the Institution's boats. It is of interest, too, to record that the new Honorary...