LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Basingstoke branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored swim in aid of the lifeboats and raised £1,169 - the largest single donation received by the RNLI Basingstoke branch.

Trophies were presented to the... - View image in PDF

It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF

AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.

A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...

The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...

THE remarkable variety of the services which life-boat crews are called upon to perform today is clearly shown in the accounts received from the stations during the spring and early summer of this year and recorded in these...

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JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....

THE Wreck Register which has been issued within the last few days by the Board of Trade affords, in its elaborate and care- fully prepared tables, abundant matter for consideration and thought. Many of the facts laid before us draw from us...