LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

.-' We've been voted 'Road Rescue Best Buy1 for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...

TROPHIES RACE SETS — MAINSAILS — DINGHYS — CUPS.

W. & E. Astin, 7 Westerley Lane, Shelley, Huddersfield.

Kirkburton 2368.

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Thursday, 6th April, 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

THERE are few sailors in the habit of trading to the river who will not be acquainted with the Swan, a dandy-rigged cutter, that serves as the Thames Floating Church, and may generally be seen lying alongside one of the sections of colliers...

THANKS TO 'WONDERFUL PEOPLE' While on holiday in the Isle of Man in September we visited the Life-boat station at Port Erin. We read the boat's record with great interest, and the members on duty tending the boat were welcoming,...

Wood was for hundreds of years the traditional boat building material and a well-built wooden craft is still a joy to look at. (Right) The hull of a 37ft din Rather, built of cold moulded wood, starts to take shape. The backbone structure of... - View image in PDF

THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...