LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.

Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...

NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...

POOLE, DORSETSHIRE.—On the 1st Junethe brigantine Otto, of Hoganas, Sweden, from Gene to Poole with a cargo of timber, was taken in tow by a steam-tug about 9 A.M., and while crossing Poole Bar the wind blowing from the E., accompanied by a...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...

Inflatables were first introduced into service in 1962, and the current development is the Atlantic 21 rigid bottomed inshore rescue boat, here shown at speed. - View image in PDF

by courtesy of David Parker. - View image in PDF

On the morn- ing of the 17th November, during a very strong gale from E.N.E., a torch- light was seen burning as a signal of distress from a vessel ashore on the New- come Sand. The life-boat stationed at this place was at once launched, but...

IT is now thirteen years ago that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, called previously to that time the " NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK," seriously undertook and commenced the national work of...

IN Northern Ireland the Life-boat Service has been receiving very valuable help from the Boys' Brigade during the last two or three months. The Belfast Battalion has made a systematic house to- house collection in the city of Belfast,...