LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....

IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.

on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one...

ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...

THE memory of the late distinguished Viceroy of India will, like many of his great predecessors, be long honoured and held in affectionate remembrance. Lord Lawrence took considerable interest in the welfare of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...

A FFINIT V WITH AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.

Not only will...

RAMSGATE.—On the 22nd April the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were called out by signal guns from the Gull Light-vessel, and left the harbour at 5.18 A.M. in a moderate E.N.E.

wind and hazy weather. The s.s. Kelloe,...

Lerwick lifeboat's service to the Russian fish factory ship Pionersk, recounted in the Winter 1994/5 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, has been recognised by the award of a Silver Medal for Gallantry to the coxswain, Hewitt Clark, and The Thanks of...

UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...