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Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF

The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...

The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new... - View image in PDF

Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT BOAT TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.

But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...

Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT BOAT] TEA TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.

But it is true, bcc.uise every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...

Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?

Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...

PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 15th January, during a moderate gale from the W.N.W., accompanied by heavy snow showers, the British Workman Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and found the s.s. Trafalgar, of London, ashore...

Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.

And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...