LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...
Category: Articles
Workboat International
E - U - R - O - P - E - S L - A - R - G - E - S - T The European Workboat Show has expanded rapidly and successfully with last year's visitors voting the show a huge success.
Well over 5000 trade visitors, from over 40...
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The Changes In the Institution's Life-Boat Fleet Since 1897
ANY changes in the composition of the fleet of Life-boats under the management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION must always be a subject of considerable interest to those whose business it is to study the question of the best type...
Category: Articles
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Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Saving Life from Shipwreck
IN the Wreck Returns presented by the Board of Trade every year to Parliament, it is recorded that, from the very nature of the circumstances, the largest number of lives saved from founderings and collisions in the seas of the British Isles...
Category: Articles
RA Range Benbecula Outer Hebrides
A snooker match worthy of Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis took place at the RA Range, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Eight members of the sergeants' mess played snooker non-stop for two days, pocketing £386.45 for the Institution as a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.S. Cheerful
Cromer, Norfolk.—Oil the 30th of May, 1953,H.M.S. Cheerful, which was paying an official visit to Cromer, had several guests on board, including the Chairman of the Cromer Urban Dis- trict Council and the life-boat honorary secretary. The...
Floating fireball
When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.
It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...
Category: Articles
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES (PFDs)
PROBLEM: A shocking 76% of fishermen who died between 2010 and 2013 weren’t wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid – it’s just not common practice on a lot of boats. In many cases, wearing a PFD could have saved the victim’s life.
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