LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT is a commonly-received opinion, that if a line can only be thrown over a stranded vessel, the salvation of those on board her is almost secured. It seems to be presumed that those at either end of this slender com- munication, after...

tHen AnD noW State of the art When crowds gathered in Dover on 10 July 1930 to see the naming of a new 20m motor lifeboat, they were to witness an historic moment for the RnLi.

named Sir William Hillary after the founder of...

• CI should like to tell about something that has given me an enormous amount of satisfaction; I think it was one of the proudest moments in my life when they made me the coxswain —and certainly the proudest moment in my dad's life. One...

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WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...

Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England, and seconded by Rear-Admiral C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.

1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.

Moved by...

On the 20th March the same boat pro- ceeded out to the Noordster, a Norwegian barque, at about midnight: it blowing hard at the time, with squalls of snow and hail. A prior attempt to board the Noordster in White's Life-boat had failed,...