LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The steam- ship Snowdon Range, of Sunderland, which passed through and survived such a succession of misfortunes in mid- Atlantic, came very near to being wrecked when being towed into harbour on the 14th January. The disabled steamer was...

She Comes. - View image in PDF

 Shortly after 1 AM on the 13th October j a deplorable disaster overtook the St. David's Life-boat, Gam, after she had rescued three men from the ketch j Democrat, of Barnstaple. The Democrat was riding with her two anchors down on...

At about 11 P.M. on the 4th December, the alarm guns were fired, on account ofthe danger to a vessel, which, however, disappeared before any assistance could reach her. The Forester Life-boat went to the supposed position of the wrecked...

BY the death of Dr. C. L. Fraser, of Berwick-on-Tweed, at the end of March, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most valued Station Honorary Secretaries. Dr. Fraser, who was a native of Montrose and was sixty-seven years old, had...

Going, going, gone. A bottle full of coins and notes for the lifeboats comes under the hammer at the Lord Burleigh, Victoria, London.

Landlord Fred Bright (r.) is a keen supporter of the RNLI who always has a giant bottle... - View image in PDF

On the morning of the 14th Novem- ber the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the steam trawler Georgette, of Grimsby, was ashore on Outer Bank, about three miles north of Winterton. She was bound home from the fishing grounds with a...

Mr. Neil Speed, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Moira, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of 10 people from the motor yacht Quesada on the night of 22nd/23rd May,...