LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep.

Beneath the surface is a unique (ibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.

Its surface,...

Launches 25. Lives rescued 32.

APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred...

South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...

ESTABLISHED by Sir William Hillary in 1824 when the seas around the British Isles were crowded with small sailing vessels, fishing and carrying cargoes, the R.N.L.I. was primarily concerned with saving lives from shipwreck. One of the...

Highly specialised Search & Rescue Craft from HALMATIC The Self-Righting 'Arun' 54' on trial Backed by over 20 years' experience in fibreglass boatbuilding, Halmatic are established leaders in the design and production of...

THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...

WHAT is that sound that cracks the air, that rip in the quivering night ? What is that flash in the scurrying clouds, that shiver of living light ? What is that clatter of hurrying feet, and why do the women run Unkempt, bareheaded, and...

Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.

Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...