LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Disaster to the Rye Life-boat.

The Whole Crew Drowned.

THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant...

THE Life-boat Station at Padstow has celebrated its Centenary this year.

The first mention of it in the records of the Institution appears under the date, 24th January, 1827, when it was decided to make a grant of £10...

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"Deck Plan.

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Body Plan. Midship Section.

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and airchambers of one of...

Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...

Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...

Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...

A NAVY Bomb Disposal team tackles still active wartime relic, caught in the nets of a fishing vessel.

A party of 10 anglers, adrift in their disabled boat, float into the danger area just as the wartime explosive...

The experimental prototype of a new design of 38ft lifeboat which is fast, yet capable of launching from a carriage, is now under construction and will begin trials in the spring. Edward Wake-Walker examines her development.THE RNLI HAS A...