LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shifting Sands
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part II—Lofting and Laying Down the Keel
THE SCENE OF ACTION now moves from the design office to the boatyard (William Osborne Ltd, Littlehampton) which will have been sent the lines plan of the boat (illustrated at very small scale at the foot of this page). It is the lines plan...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
Category: Articles
Nineteen Hours on Gale Service
COXSWAIN John MacLeod of Barra Island and the other members of the Barra Island crew have received letters of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., in recognition of a long service in which the life-boat...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Medallist on His Visit to London
SECOND-Coxswain James Sim, of Fraserburgh, one of the medallists who was present at the Annual Meeting, was interviewed on his return home by the Fraserburgh correspondent of The Fishing News about his visit to London, and this is what he...
Category: Articles
New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
Category: Articles
After the Naming Ceremonv Hrh the Princess of Wales Inspected Barmouth's New 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat
After the naming ceremonv HRH The Princess of Wales inspected Barmouth's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat which bears her name. With Her Royal Highness is Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution, and behind... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bob Kemm (R)
Bob Kemm (r). assistant general manager of Leicester Bui/ding Societv, hands a cheque for £8.000 to Lord Stanley of Alderley. a member of the Committee of Management, at the central jetty. Earls Court.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Fortress Aeroplane (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
An American Fortress aeroplane had been reported down, but the life-boat was recalled by Hunstanton coastguard. While the lifeboat out, batteries on shore twice fired machine...