LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE management and the practical working of a great national service like that of the Life-boat demand the constant attention of the technical officers of the Institution ; and these, under the direction of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats,...

ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.

Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...

Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...

On the 23rd May, during a strong breeze from the N.E. by E., the brig Amicizia, of Genoa, was observed to take the ground in the Stanford Channel. The Lowestoft and Pakefield life-boats both put off to the rescue of the crew. The first-named...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...

THE interest of the natives of the Gold Coast in the life-boat service has on several occasions been mentioned in this journal. The Institution has received letters from them written to it as a general stores, as " the best dealers in...

Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.

Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.

DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.

They were both vessels...

THE remarks contained in the following opportune communication from the Rev. J. Scarth, are deserving of every consideration, notwithstanding that they only repeat the oft-told tale in regard to the dreadful loss of life at...