LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lite-boats:- EXPENDITURE. t s. a. £ New Life-boats for the following stations : — On account — Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Piel (Barrow), Rosslare Harbour, Southend-on-Sea, Stromness, Swanage, and Walton-on-Naze, etc 33,252 7 3 Provision of...

Thursday, 14th February, 1935.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the death of the Rt. Hon. and Rev. the Earl of Devon, a vice-president of the Institution since...

Ray Kipling, the RNLi's public relations officer, takes a closer look at the rescue statistics over the last 20 years.

WHAT HAVE a man on a bicycle, a man in a barrel, a pheasant, a butterfly and a • horse got in common...

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.

LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...

ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...

NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...

A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.

AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...

Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI COALPORT A Limited Edition of2500 The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.

Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and furious sea to save...