LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.—The life-boat Latitia was launched about midnight on the j 12th February, 1869, in reply to signals of distress from the brig Beatrix, of Whitby, j which was riding heavily in the Roads near Gorton Gapway, with her...

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IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of the Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout the...

I. THE Annual General Meeting prescribed by the Charter shall be held on the 4th day of March, or as soon after as may be convenient, and the same and all other General Meetings shall be held at such time and place as the Committee of Manage...

THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK. — ON Sunday morning, the 12th November, the brig Vulcan, of Whitstable, during a heavy gale, parted from her anchors, and making sail to clear the pier at the entrance to Yarmouth harbour, ran on the Gorlestonbeach. The...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 12th of October, 1949, a fisherman reported that a vessel was on the rocks at East Point, and at 9.35 the life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched. In a very strong south- westerly breeze,...

Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...