LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(right} is taken on a tour of inspection of Rotary Service by (I.) Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations RNLI, and (r.) Captain Peter White,. - View image in PDF

IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.

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THERE are few matters of greater importance to a maritime country like England than the preservation and improvement of its harbours. To the extent of our sea-coast, and the bountiful distribution of safe and commodious harbours on so many...

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FEBRUARY 28TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane coming towards land was heard to strike the water. Aeroplanes and launches, as well as the life-boats, made a long search but all that was found was one body, by a launch,...

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...

Around and about the RNLI Jam on the Bread! Two stars from the popular BBC TV series 'Bread' drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 50th national lottery, which took place on 31 July 1990.

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Mallaig, Inverness-shire EARLIER BAD WEATHER on Saturday September 11, 1982, gave way to a bright sunny morning at the attractive west coast of Scotland harbour of Mallaig as preparations were made for the naming of the station's new...