LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arun Development
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES gathering momentum over the past 30 years have pushed back the horizon of the seafaring man.
High-powered marine diesel engines, allied with modern hull design, have given him speed with reliability...
Category: Articles
Kapok Life-Belts. Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade
Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Court of Inquiry held by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the Rye Harbour...
Category: Articles
Cromer Lifeboat Appeal
In at the deep end: Coxswain Richard Davies of Cromer (r) demonstrates the depths to which he will sink in order to collect money for the Cromer lifeboat appeal. The East Anglian branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden
By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sällskabet För Räddning Af Skeppsbrutne...
Category: Articles
A Hundred Years Ago
WE believe that a life-belt, for an adult person of average size, ought to have, at the least, buoyant power equal to 20 Ibs., and as much more as can conveniently be obtained.
Having decided on the amount of buoyancy, the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Broadcasting In Scotland
THROUGH the kind help of the B.B.C. considerable use has been made of the wireless in appealing for the Life-boat Service throughout Scotland.
A special Life-boat programme was given from the Glasgow and Aberdeen wireless...
Category: Articles
China
PiEii, LANCASHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 4th September the William Eirkett Lifeboat was launched in reply to signals, to the assistance of the barque China, of Porsgrund, Norway. The boat was towed by the steam-tug Ajax, and when about two miles,...
Seawitch
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 6.38 p.m. on 19th July, 1966, the honorary secretary of the ladies' life-boat guild reported that a red flare had been fired from a fishing boat half a mile to seaward of the boathouse.
The...
The Gift Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.
At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...
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MARCH 2ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.55 P.M. a small white mast with a flag was seen about six or seven miles E. N.E. of the life-boat station. It was thought to be a raft with people on board.
A light...