LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thursday, 2nd October, 1884.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P,, in the Chair.! Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and j Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- '...

One breezy Autumn evening at dusk, a passenger vessel travelling along the River Thames collided with Tower Pier in central London. Upriver at Chiswick, another incident unfolded

At 7pm on...

THANKS to the energy of the BOARD or TRADE we are enabled to draw the attention of our readers several months earlier than we had anticipated, to the facts and figures contained in the Blue Book compiled from the Wreck Register for the year...

A warm and sunny day greeted the 500 guests who attended the naming ceremony of Newbiggin's new Atlantic 75 lifeboat on 22 August at the station's newly refurbished boathouse.. - View image in PDF

Coxswain James Thomson, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has won both the Institution's silver medal and the British Empire Medal for rescuing the crew of a steamer in the blizzard which swept the west coast ot Scotland in the middle of...

• There is a rich seam of historical booklets to report this autumn: In recent years it has been recognised that a boat specifically for lifesaving was established at Formby Point on the approaches to Liverpool as early as 1776....

SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave...

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