LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Earls Court, London, January 6 to 16 A SHOP WINDOW FOR THE WORK OF THE RNLIA YEAR OF NATIONAL CELEBRATION for the 25 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign began for lifeboat supporters in January at the 1977 International Boat Show in...

ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...

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THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...

A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?

‘All we knew when we launched...

A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...

Photograph above was taken during capsize and righting exercise. The crew, clear of the Atlantic 21 but attached to her by lifeline, have pulled the activating cord, gas has been released into buoyancy bag and the boat is righting. Note... - View image in PDF

Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.

February Meeting.

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master...