LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Canoes
Canoes HEARING AT 1335 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that a canoe had capsized off Dover, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins informed Dover Port Control that he and a crew member who was with him were going to the boathouse to stand by....
Four Inshore Rescue Boats Leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for Delivery to Coastal Stations.
Four inshore rescue boats leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for delivery to coastal stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
The following 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 elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
Letter
Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...
Category: Correspondence
The Queen's Fort
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
Category: Articles
Letters
Lifeboat car? In late September when driving from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, I passed a Triumph saloon car towing a caravan, the car bearing the registration RNL 1 which was condensed to read RNLI. The car also bore an RNLI flag on the...
Category: Correspondence
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th March, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution : Miss A. Hall (additional donation) . . £50 To be...
Category: Committee
Above: Visitors Watch the Atlantic 21
Above: Vjsitors watch ,he Atlantic 21 right , herself after a deliberate capsize. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scotch offers support
RNLI SOS day 2010 is on 29 January, so now is the time to really get planning.
Burns night celebrations are a popular SOS activity for those in Scotland (or those who just wish they were in Scotland!), and Talisker whisky...
Category: Articles