LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(Right) The ceremony over, Sir Alec goes aboard for a tour of the harbour.. - View image in PDF

The late Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named (above).. - View image in PDF

Left:A 10m swell looms behind the Vijaya, as seen from the lifeboat. - View image in PDF

The "VAN KOOK" LIFEBOAT SAVING A SHIPWRECKED CREW on the Goodwin Sands.

THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...

New Quay,Cardiganshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was reported in difficulties be- tween five and six miles north-east of New Quay. There was a shirt flying from her mast-head...

THE EXPERIENCES of a number of lifeboats in the severe gales last winter led to the appointment in February, 1978 of a working party to examine what more could be done to reduce the dangers facing lifeboat crews in extreme conditions....

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.

In figs. 1 and 2, the...