LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tke Institution has decided to lay down two new motor life-boats, of the 46-feet Watson cabin type, costing £10,000 each, to replace two life-boats of this type which have been destroyed by enemy action.

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Oct. 23, 1857.—A Norwegian barque was seen in distress during stormy weather on Hasboro' Sands. A fishing-lugger's crew picked up, with some difficulty, the ship's crew of 9 men, who had taken to their boat.—Reward,...

LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...

AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.

Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...

IT is very gratifying to be able to record that H.M. the King of Norway awarded a piece of silver plate to Robert Smith, the Coxswain of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, and conferred Silver Medals and diplomas on the other...

Swanage, Dorset: (left) Launch of J. Reginald Corah after her naming. The Duke of Kent then embarked to make a round of Swanage Bay. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of A. G. L. Hardy.. - View image in PDF

At 11.28 a.m. on 20th June, 1967, a yacht was reported in difficulties off Aberaeron and was drifting ashore. The life-boat St. Albans was launched at 11.40 in a strong south westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The...

IN 1938 the coastguard organization took action in 944 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress or to be overdue round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is three times as many...