LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Testing Times
The problems encountered by lifeboat designers seeking extra speed have been mentioned before in these pages, as boat design is never as straightforward as it may seem. Increased speed is not just a question of bigger engines or even just of...
Category: Articles
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services
Hongi
End of voyage A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC made a 999 call to the Police early on the morning of Saturday October 16, 1982, reporting a catamaran flashing a white light about 100 yards off Sidmouth Beach, 9Vz miles east north east of Exmouth...
A Dramatic Rescue Incident Off Shoreham on 25th June, 1967, When 21 Sailing Boats Capsized In a Sudden Squall
A dramatic rescue incident off Shoreham on 25th June, 1967, when 21 sailing boats capsized in a sudden squall.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trouble on the Trap
The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...
Category: Articles
RNLI Volunteers Keep Evacuees Safe In Flood Waters
RnLI volunteers keep evacuees safe in fl ood waters. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Overall, Blue Peter Lifeboats Have Launched More Than 4,300
Overall, Blue Peter lifeboats have launched more than 4,300 times, saving the lives of 1,028 people.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Acorn Editions
Cyril Jolly's new book! THE LOSS OF THE ENGLISH TRADER RNLI Coxswain Henry Btogg's toughest mission Read how the gallant but temperamental English Trader met her end on Hammond Knoll off the Norfolk Coast in 1941, and how the...
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Lifesavers Under a Blue Sky - RNLI Atlantic 75,
Lifesavers under a blue sky - RNLI Atlantic 75, Walters Lifeboat with KNRM Rigid inflatable lifeboat. Christien.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Temple Insurance
Boat Insurance for Shoreline Members (and other lifeboat' readers) Temple Insurance Brokers Ltd., specialist Marine Craft Insurance Brokers, Members of the British Insurance Brokers Association, are pleased to offer Shoreline Members and...
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