LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...

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...

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...

'A YEAR of intense activity and gratifying success for the lifeboat service" is the phrase used in the RNLI's report to describe the happenings in 1972. The facts certainly justify this. The total number of lives saved, which is...

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....

AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...

UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...

A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.

The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .

'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...