LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...

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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...

Lizzie the Lifeboat, the heroine of Dora Thatcher's book, is continuing her fund raising activities - but this time in model form! Modeller and lifeboat enthusiast John Saunders was growing tired of having to refuse small boys requests... - View image in PDF

Fog . . . one of the worst hazards for the seafarer. The prototype 47ft Tyne class lifeboat City of London underwent her slipway trials at Selsey lifeboat station in Sussex, and Selsey lifeboathouse and slipway can be seen looming in the... - View image in PDF

Treat for Derek: A Dundee boy handed over £16.50 lifeboat and was rewarded with every schoolboy's dream—the chance to join the crew of a lifeboat for the morning. Derek Arthur, aged 12, a pupil at Morgan Academy, has been collecting... - View image in PDF

B.A.S.P was named after the initials of the four donors who funded her. She is an example of an early motor lifeboat but was still fitted with a mast and sails.

Type 45ft Watson Motor Single Screw Lifeboat Built 1924 Length... - View image in PDF

.-' We've been voted 'Road Rescue Best Buy1 for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...

Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier On September 3, 1983, Coxswain Berry took his lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King, three miles in among rocks to rescue three people from the yacht Cythara in a force 9 strong... - View image in PDF