LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SUPPORT CONTINUES TO COME in from Amateur Swimming Association clubs for our appeal to organise sponsored swims to raise funds for the RNLI. To help clubs who arrange their programmes well in advance the swim can be arranged at any time over...

Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakers One Gold Medal Five Bronze Medals Two Thanks on Vellum with a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost...

From a Submarine Depot-ship.

H.M.S. Cyclops, the submarine depotship, when she was paid off at Chatham in the spring, sent a gift of £30 to the Institution from her canteen funds.

From Two...

THE Wreck Register which has been issued within the last few days by the Board of Trade affords, in its elaborate and care- fully prepared tables, abundant matter for consideration and thought. Many of the facts laid before us draw from us...

SHIPS' BOATS : THEIR QUALITIES, CON- STRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND LAUNCH- ING APPLIANCES. By Ernest W.

Blocksidge, M.I.N.A. (Longmans, Green & Co. 25.?. net.) Reviewed by FELIX RUBIE, M.I.N.A., Surveyor of...

LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEA, AND LLAN- DDULAS, DENBIGHSHIRE.—One of the new self-righting Life-boats, with the water- ballast fittings, has been placed at Llan- ddwyn by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in the place of a smaller Boat...

In looking over the list of wrecks, no one can fail to be struck at the prominent position occupied by the officers and men of the Coast-Guard Service on all such occasions.

The records of the National Shipwreck Insti-...

In the Winter 96/97 issue, spotter's guide to lifeboat classes looked at the lifeboats of the Institution's all-weather fleet. In this issue, we bring you the inshore lifeboats and the only intermediate class in the fleet, the... - View image in PDF