LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...

The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...

ON 27th February, 1874, the life-boat St. George, at Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, was launched in a gale to the help of the barque Grace Darling, of Blyth, which was flying signals of dis- tress. As the life-boat approached her the signals...

On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.

She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...

Two lifeboats help in evacuation of 114 from stranded passenger vesselBoth of Poole's lifeboats were called on to help with the evacuation of 114 passengers from a passenger vessel which ran aground in darkness and thick fog on the night...

On the 25th June, the steam trawler Cape Sable, of Hull, ran aground in a very dangerous place near Hoy Head, in a dense fog.

She was homeward bound from, the fishing grounds at the Faroes, and carried a crew of twelve. A...

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the afternoon of the 5th May the s.s.

Birtley, of Newcastle, ran aground about six hundred yards north of Whitburn Steel in a fog. She was bound, light, from Rotterdam to the Tyne. A moderate S.E....

A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised... - View image in PDF