LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN safety we sit in our homes, I And read about storms on the sea, ' Of the dangers which men undergo, I And how brave in the danger they be.

We read of the waves mountain high, | Of the wind and its...

Contents RNLI News 110 Volume L Number 499 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services . 113 Focus on the Hon.

Secretaries by Ray Kipling . 120 Electronic Eyes and...

Active Membership The growth of our active membership continues to be encouraging, and at 13 September 1989 consisted of 149,076 adults, (24,743 Governors and 124,333 Shoreline) with Storm Force reaching 9,592 individuals and 144 groups.<...

Mallaig coxswain Tommy Ralston, right, hands over the replica of the St John's Cross of lona to David McKie of Tobermory lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.

September Meeting.

Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...

LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.

Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...

THE admirably arranged and deeply interesting Tables compiled from the wreck register which the BOARD OF TRADE publishes each year, bring vividly before the mind the terrible loss of life and property which annually takes place on our coasts...