LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...

COVER PICTURE by Mike Floyd The Princess Roval (Civil Service No.

41) is launched for the first time at St Ives in Cornwall. The Mersey class lifeboat arrived at the station on 16 October and was recovered and immediately... - View image in PDF

By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.

THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...

THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has decided to supply Owners or Masters of Fishing Vessels with an Aneroid Baro- meter of a superior and reliable character, at a small cost, which must make this useful instrument a welcome addition to...

Lives saved.

Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.

Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...

The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. She first saw action in 1802 and continued to save lives at Redcar until 1880. Local historian Dave Phillipson, a crew member from 1961-1986, looks at the history of a remarkable...

THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Fast fleet 'on target' for 1993 WITH RECORD numbers of lifeboats under construction or on order, the RNLI's chairman, the Duke of Atholl told a packed Royal Festival Hall on May 12 of his vision of the service in the year...