LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...

Two life-boats 70- foot in length, which will be larger than any at present in the Institution's service, are to be built by Messrs. Yarrow and Company Ltd.

in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Both will be constructed in steel, one...

Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.

September Meeting.

Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk.— A three-masted schooner, the Six Sisters, of Hull, was anchored...

Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour service to two separate casualties in winds up to...

is now some seventeen years since we felt it our duty to call the attention of the public to the lamentable disuse into which ; the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since that period great advances have been made in teaching this important...

ON March llth, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

(Major-General Seely), coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight,...

RELIABILITY ON THE SEAS...

Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION m The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat Institution": As early as 1929/30 the...

SOME astounding figures have been recorded of the services of life-boats in 1961. The month of August this year was, for instance, by far the busiest month the service has ever known since it was founded 137 years ago. During the month...