LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE oldest existing life-boat station in England lies half-hidden behind a scrap metal yard on the Sunderland docks. The road to the life-boathouse twists and bends between low-lying warehouses and shipyard buildings towards the river Wear,...

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LIFE-BOAT OARS.

As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...

LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...

The following paragraph first appeared in THE TIMES on 20th February, 1866.

It was printed again in THE TIMES on i$th February, 1966: (Royal National Life-boat Institution) Nothing, in fact, that the Government could do...

THE KNOLL ROUSE A CIVILISED AND RELAXING HOUOAV FOR ALL AGES GOLF, TEWNS, OUTDOOR POOL, HEALTH SM WTTH PLUNGE POOL SECLUDED GARDENS LEAD TO THREE MILES OF GOLDEN BEACH. GROUNDS OF 100 ACRES IN MAGNIFICENT COUNTRYSIDE CONNECTING ROOMS FOR...

This series of descriptive articles on visits to life-boat stations was begun by Margaret Peter. It is being continued by Stephen Mogridge, who writes about Plymouth in the first of his contributions.

WITH the Navy watching...