LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats Go Green?
The world's first motor-sailing lifeboat? It would undoubtedly save fuel and probably be great fun for the crews, but could it manage the 32-knot service speed? Sadly, this isn't the latest product of the fertile minds of the Trials... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Honours for Honorary Workers
Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth.
THE Committee of Management at their meeting last June elected Miss Alice Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secretary of its Oxford Branch, a...
Category: Awards
Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby
The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...
Category: Obituaries
"Launch!" An Appreciation of General Seely's Book
I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
Category: Articles
Northerly Storm - Spring Tides (From Page 121)
abbreviated log preceded a day of inspection and damage assessment for all coastal staff in the area. The divisional inspector of lifeboats for the South East, Lieut-Commander Michael Woodroffe, was diverted to carry out a survey of Margate...
Category: Articles
First Knight (1)
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and Two Yachts (1)
RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...
Radio Equipment In Life-Boats
Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.
ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...
Category: Articles