LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFEBOAT SMALL ADS TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY THE PRISMATIC HAND-HELD MARCHING COMPASS This brass compass is made in England to an extremely high standard of specification and is an improved version of the 'Standard Service Type...

Honorary Life-Governor.

The following have been appointed HONOR- ARY LIFE-GOVERNORS of the Institu- tion and have been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...

ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...

THE Hundred and Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West- minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.

The feature of the meeting was the presence of Coxswains from...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.-—At 3.15 in the morning of the 28th of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor ship Hervor Eratt, of Gothen- burg, of 1500 tons, bound for Sweden with coke, had reported that she was ashore at...

Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...

FROM IST JANUARY TO 16-rn APKIL, 1874.

John and Jenefer, fchooner, of Fowey 5 Mary, smack, of Grtmsby 6 Jessie, schooner, of Blylh 6 /Via, barqne, of Blyth— Saved vessel and crew 11 EXKX. brig, of...

A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...