LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Falmouth, Cornwall.—12th January, 1938. A steamer had been reported to be dragging her anchors, but was able to get to a safer anchorage.—Rewards, £13 115. 6d..

One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia

Both incidents involved loss of life, with...

Hythe, Kent.—At 10.57 A.M. on the 3rd August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a man had put off from Sandgate in a small pulling boat at 9 A.M. for an hour. He had not returned.

It was assumed that he could not get back....

New Brighton, Cheshire. — At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1951, the son of an oldfisherman, formerly a life-boat second coxswain, reported that his father had left New Brighton stage in a small boat at seven that...

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.

At 4.20...

THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

ANOTHER heavy loss has fallen on the Institution by the death of Mr. Edgar H.

Johnson, F.C.I.S., of Manchester, the District Organising Secretary for the North of England.

He was taken ill last spring,...

THE RNLI Midnight Matinee to be held at the Victoria Palace in London, which had to be postponed, will now take place on Friday, March 8, 1974, and it should be possible to include full details in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT.