LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

D class lifeboat rescues 36 people from canoes, yacht and raftsCleethorpes' D class inflatable liferaft was involved in three services on one day on 30 July 1989, rescuing no less than 36 people. The first service started as the crew...

The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...

During a southerly gale and in a heavy sea, on the 3rd Jan., 1869, the Yarmouth beachmen observed a vessel apparently on the Scroby Sands. The large life-boat, the Mark Lane, was at once launched and taken in that direction, but when near...

Thursday, 9th February, 1933.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Co-opted Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson, a member of the committee of management.

Reported the receipt of the...

Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.

THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.

D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...

JUNE 1ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 15s.

Fig. i.

Body Plan. Midship Section.

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1...