LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.

Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...

" Losses at Sea: their Causes and Means of Prevention, embracing several other subjects of importance for the Safe Navigation of Vessels." By J. H. RIDLEY, Master in the Merchant Service. London, published for the Author, 1854....

In the month of March the following excellent services were also rendered by the Caister small Life-boat, the Boys:— "While on a voyage from Newcastle to Dublin, the schooner Punch, of Carnarvon, was wrecked on the Barber Sands, off...

The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.

No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

The boats of the ROTAL NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT IHSTITUTIOH and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...

THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.

Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...

AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.

She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...