LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By the time this issue of theLifeboat reaches you, coastal hovercraft trials will have been completed as part of the RNLI's hovercraft pilot scheme.

Following successful results from initial trials at Poole, the 7.6m...

Where do search and rescue helicopters go when they're not saving lives? James Ferguson hitches a ride with RAF Lossiemouth to find out.British military helicopters and RNLI lifeboats have been working together for over 50 years, with...

WELLS, NORFOLK.—A new life-boat establishment has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Wells, on the coast of Norfolk. There was a considerable length of coast in the district without a life-boat, and as vessels frequently...

IN April, 1883, the ship I commanded was homeward bound from Australia to Cork, for orders; we were just off New Zealand, about the worst place "for wind till you come to Cape Horn on the passage.

A heavy N.W. gale...

BLACKPOOL.—On the 26th February, at 7.30 A.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel had just been seen on the Salthouse Bank with a signal of distress flying. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.W., and the sea was...

IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...

THE Institution has its own pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The pavilion has been built for the Institu- tion by Sir John Burnet, Tait & Larne, architects of the...

WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...