LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...

As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...

Thursday, llth Sept., 1862.—Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...

SOME 300 representatives from government and industry in 21 countries attended a New York conference in October, 1970, to discuss ways of providing 100% search and rescue coverage for vessels needing help on the high...

For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...

Fishing party DUNGENESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft 6in Rother Alice Upjohn, had launched on exercise on Thursday March 8 and was close to her station when, at 1700, two local fishermen on shore were seen waving. Second Coxswain Peter Thomas, in...

Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the 19th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.

"In the Day-time.—The...

AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...