LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Staff from the RNLI's depot and headquarters gave a helping hand to the Children in Need Appeal on 1 December last year when they made a 'double circumnavigation' of Poole. The D class inflatable stayed firmly ashore, being... - View image in PDF

ABERDEEN C i T Y COUNCIL To the rescue with the "Shinins isht' Rose Lifeboats * J» AJM.f M.11 I J.YV7 LJ V- Roval Na(lonal U)eboat "Shining Light" was commissioned by Aberdeen City Council as part of the Millennium...

JAN. 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon a gale was blowing from the N.N.W. with a heavy sea. The motor fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea and as she did not return the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...

FEBRUARY 8TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND: The coastguard reported a raft at about 1..40 P.M., floating one and a half miles north of the Farne Islands. A moderate S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. As the raftmight have...

OCTOBER 9TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

During the morning several fishing cobles had to cut, their lines and make for harbour, as a S.E. wind of almost gale force was blowing, and the sea was heavy. Three other cobles. Rosamond,...

JANUARY 1 4TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

About 10.30 at night the Saltburn coastguard reported a message from the police at Marske that a vessel was ashore here. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The...

A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...

Body Han, 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 and 2, the deration and...