LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services November and December 1983 January and February 1984
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: November 5 and December 2 Relief 52ft Arun: January 26 and February 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 4 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Relief 42ft Beach: December 30 and January 5 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in...
Category: Services
Above: Sheerness Trent Class Lifeboat George and Ivy Swanson
Above: Sheerness Trent class lifeboat George and Ivy Swanson helps to evacuate crew from their vessel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part V—Planking
AFTER MANY MONTHS of patient craftsmanship, fitting, shaping and building up the many members which make up a boat's frame, RNLB Shoreline, building at William Osbornes of Littlehampton, is now being planked. The hull is taking form.<...
Category: Articles
To Show That He Is Still Young at 60 Gordon Gav/Or Planned a Marathon of 12 Sports
To show that he is still young at 60, Gordon Gav/or planned a marathon of 12 sports which he had to complete within 12 hours. In order of performance, they were: glider flying, swimming, boxing, cycling, roller skating, accordion playing,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, in the wheelhouse of the 33ft Brede class lifeboat to be named R.VJ.B Merchant Navy, during his visit to the RNLI stand at the Birmingham Boat and Caravan Show in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above Middle) D-387 Indicates a D Class Inshore
(Above middle) 0-387 indicates a D class inshore lifeboat (and therefore a 16ft single engined inflatable), the 387th to be built.. - View image in PDF
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Below Left: Shoreham Crew Launch a D Class
Below left: Shoreham crew launch a D class from its trailer at the start of a long and tiring day in Lewes,. - View image in PDF
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Campbeltown's Severn Class Lifeboat Ernest and Mary Shaw
Campbeltown's Severn class lifeboat Ernest and Mary Shaw, deputy second coxswain David Cox; crew member Stephen Scatly. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
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...
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Salcombe - Tyne Class the Baltic Exchange Ii
Champagne bathes the bows of The Baltic Exchange lias Mrs David Frame, wife of the chairman of the Baltic Exchange releases the bottle to name the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy South Hams Photography). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs