LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...

How to clean up for the lifeboats.

Barrie Davis, studio manager of Dawson Strange Photography in Cobham (wearing Shoreline sweater) undertook to sell off in aid of the RNLI cleaning products which his firm had been... - View image in PDF

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.36 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that the local motor boat Uncle Tom, which had a crew of three, had lost her bearings and had made fast to...

CEMLY.N, ANGLESEY, AND HARTLEPOOL.— THE B.OY.AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has provided these Life-boat Stations with new ten-oared boats of the newest type, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, each being provided with three water-ballast...

When the maroons are fired at Ilfracombe, on the North Devon Coast, everyone has a good chance of seeing the new life-boat, Lloyd's II, which is kept in the life-boat house below Lantern Hill, going on its carriage through the heart of...

Wood was for hundreds of years the traditional boat building material and a well-built wooden craft is still a joy to look at. (Right) The hull of a 37ft din Rather, built of cold moulded wood, starts to take shape. The backbone structure of... - View image in PDF

BEFOHK the middle of October the Institution's life-boats had already rescued more lives this year than they rescued in the whole of 1956, although 19,56 was the busiest year the service had ever known in time of peace.

Stromness, Orkneys.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1952, the motor mechanic reported that conditions between Bow Rock and Taing of Selwick were deteriorat- ing. The steam trawler Strathelliot had stranded there...