LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.

In figs. 1 and 2, the...

To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.

SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION has received, through the Belgian Ambassador, the Civic Cross of the 1st Class, which the King of the Belgians has conferred on it " In recognition of valuable services rendered by the Insti-...

At 9.35 A.M. on the 25th March the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the Good- wins, two miles W.S.W. of East Goodwin light-vessel. The motor life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 9.50 A.M. and...

Humber, Yorkshire.—During a fog on the morning of the 3rd October the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported an unknown vessel ashore near Kilnsea beacon. She was the Greek steamer Ais Giorgis, of Piraeus, bound with a cargo...

Open fishing boat on rocks FISHING IN AN OPEN BOAT at about 0200 on Friday, July 9, 1976, Paul Power saw an 18' open boat go on the rocks near Falskirt Rock, 52° 08'N 7° 02'W, but, the area being filled with lobster...

Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...

Many voluntary workers with long associations with the R.N.L.I. can remember when they first became interested in the life-boat service. Certainly nowadays every effort is made in schools all over the country to interest children in the epic... - View image in PDF