LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Length 10m (32ft 9in) Beam 3.7m (12ft 2in) Displacement Approx 9 tonnes Speed 18.6 knots Range 140 n. miles Crew 4 Construction Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP). - View image in PDF

South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...

National INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. PATRONESS. HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. VICE-FATUOUS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. HIS MAJESTY THE...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...

GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...

(A Self-righter 42 ft. x II ft. 6 in., with a 30 h.p. Tylor Engine.). - View image in PDF

A welcome that leaves other Boat Show packages in our wake.

A trip to the London International Boat Show, January 6th - 16th 2000, is even better when you make a Hilton or Stakis Hotel your first port of call. The friendly...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...