LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 86, 88,91, the following launches for service were made during the months December, 1967 to February, 1968, inclusive: Aldeburgh...

By VIOLET GLOAG (12J) Ann Street School, Dundee.

What are the Qualities which make a Good Life-boatman ? ONE of the most essential noble qualities that make a good life-boatman is that of bravery. His is not the bravery...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...

Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...

THURSDAY, 10th May, 1888.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also those of the Finance and Correspondence,...

AT 7.26 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Weymouth life-boat station, Mr. K. H.

Mooring Aldridge, that a motor vessel was ashore on Portland...

Continuing a series of profiles of lifeboat classes By Keith Thatcher RNLI Naval Architect TI he RNLI's experiment with an in the Waveney class proved to Institution turned its attention to tended service...