LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...

While The Final Boat Duke of Atholl (inset, 1990) has the cut-away topsides and standard wheelhouse of the later boats.. - View image in PDF

Debbie Stewart, now in the Aberystwyth ILB crew, originally trained at Atlantic College where there are six girls on the crew. Jeanne O'Gorman is an instructor at the Outward Bound School at Aberdovey where the village and school each...

Our flood rescue team volunteers will travel anywhere in the world to prevent tragedies in flood disasters – but how do you train for lifesaving in such extreme conditions?

With a heave and an...

DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...

Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...

IN May of this year Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., completed twenty-five years as chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.

There have been, including him, eight chairmen in the 124 years since the Institution...

DR NORA ACHESON who died in Aideburgh in 1981, in her eightieth year, had always been connected with the local lifeboat. It was thought that she was the first lady doctor ever to have gone to sea in an RNLI lifeboat on service when she stood...