LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TT appears from the Annual Wreck Register of the British Isles, just published under the auspices of the Board of Trade, that 2,513 shipwrecks, representing a registered tonnage of 464,000 tons, took place in the seas and on the coasts of...

Left - The Duke of Kent addresses the conference.. - View image in PDF

Martin Woodward is the former Coxswain of Bembridge Lifeboat Station. Now in his 60s, he could be forgiven for taking it easy after years of dedicated service. Not a chance!

In 2009, Martin climbed Kilimanjaro, Africa’s...

« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.

THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...

'FORTH TYNE NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHERLY. 4 OCCASIONALLY 5 IN FORTH AT FIRST, SHOWERS. GOOD" RAIN LATER, GOOD .UATSTRATING THE SHIPPING FORK :AS1 Peter Collyer The words are evocative. They are part of our cultural heritage....

XXXI.—ST. DAVID'S.

Augusta, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars The Augusta was stationed at St. David's in 1869 her cost being subscribed by the Earl of Dart- mouth's tenantry in Staffordshire and...

Rolling in money Fiona Kennedy, Eastleigh & District branch chairman, raised £1,200 from a sponsored 10 mile roller blade marathon in August.

This was no mean feat for someone who described herself on her sponsor...

ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...