LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Major K. G. Groves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, was inadvertently described as Major Graves in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT and apologies are expressed for this error. Major Groves was awarded the...

Montrose, Angus - On 4th May, 1970, the life-boat The Good Hope was launched on service and rescued the crew of four of the dredger Coquet Mouth. A full account of this service will appear in the next number of THE LIFE-BOAT..

A small service to help a great one Rentokil is proud to have helped in the renovation of a number of R.N.L.I, stations and to have served an Institution whose own traditions of service are without parallel.

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FROM the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued, we observe that on the 30th of June, 1885, there were 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio,...

The following article by Alex Dickson appeared in the Scottish Daily Mail in December. It is reproduced here by courtesy of the Scottish Daily Mail.

Beside every life-boat there hangs an extra set of bright yellow oilskins....

Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young...

THE Wreck Register for 1871 was issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 14, and is, as usual, a very complete and ex-haustive document. It is supplemented, in the usual way, by most interesting charts, which have greatly helped us to analyze...

SINCE the publication of the last number of The Life-Boat Journal, the Board of Trade has issued its annual Blue Book —so deeply interesting to all taking an interest in sailors and shipping—giving in many admirably arranged tables the...