LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mudeford ILB at speed.. - View image in PDF

(below) at nearby Looe in the 1920s. - View image in PDF

THE occasional claims for property salvage made by members of life-boat crews sometimes lead to misunder- standing of both the law and practice in this matter, and mis-statements of fact are not infrequently made both publicly and privately....

IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...

Steady, brave and earnest, See them as they stand, Waiting for the signal That bids them leave the land.

Out upon the waters, Lashed to fury now, Each man and youth is working With a grave and anxious...

GOLDEN HARTER FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended bv ihe National Socletv of Allied & Independent runcral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...

MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.

MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...

THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.

I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...