LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During the night of the 10th October, the 'Sisters' Memorial Life-boat, in answer to signals of distress from the flat Swallow, ol Bun corn, was launched, and brought on shore from that vessel the crew, 3 in number. The Swallow had...

When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.

I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...

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MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.

The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern,...

AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...

THE following is a copy of a Circular issued by the Board of Trade to the different Local Life-boat Committees and others who have charge of life-boats on the coasts:— " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Marine Department,...

SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...

SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...