LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fig. I: The forefoot of the stem has a fine entry. Ruffle holes are built into the skeg through which preventer chains are passed to hold the lifeboat, when at rest, on her slipway.. - View image in PDF

Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...

Thursday, llth May, 1933.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Sir JOHN G. CUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., in the chair.

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and the Hon.

George Colville were re-elected...

THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...

THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...

UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...

Friday, 17th November, 1922.

The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.

Reported the death of Rear-Admiral Hector B. Stewart, a Member of the Committee of Management for many years.

Fig. i.

Body Plan. Midship Section.

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1...