LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.

THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...

ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...

AFFINITY WITH 5 * The Royal Bank of Scotland pic The Royal Bank »* Royal National Lifeboat v. Institution DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly...

(Left) 50' Thames class lifeboat is a development by the RNLI of the 44' Waveney lifeboat. Like the Waveney, she lies afloat, is self-righting and is of steel and aluminium construction. Twin General Motors Detroit marine diesel... - View image in PDF

WHEN i WORKED for a weekly newspaper in the late 1940s on the Grimsby/ Cleethorpes side of the Humber I used to dream of visiting Spurn Head on the Yorkshire side. Certainly, when viewed through one of the telescopes on the front on a clear...

Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...

For so many people, the lifeboat service is synonymous with those who risk their lives, putting out to sea to save others. Here, RAY KIPLING, Assistant Director of the RNLI, takes a look at the less glamorous, but equally important role...

RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....