LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GREENORE, Co. LOUTH. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat station at Greenore, Carlingford Lough, in consequence of the urgent representation of several important authorities and local residents, who considered...

BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the 11th of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...

ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...

Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.

THIS year, for the first time, the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland was won by a pupil of a London school, Alfred Robinson, of Warple Way Mixed School,...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to September 30th, 1949 - 76,606 The Prime Minister on the Life-Boat Service4 I HAVE the...

AT Lowestoft on Saturday the 21st July, 1962, a large number of holiday- makers watched a drama take its course as a trimaran was brought safely into harbour after spending some hours in distress in full view of the...

THE deep interest that has recently been awakened throughout the country on the subject of the preservation of life from ship- wreck, by the publication of the Report of the Life-Boat Committee, appointed to award the premium offered by the...

BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A new 33- feet 10-oared Life-boat and carriage have been sent here in lieu of the old boat and carriage, which were becoming unfit for further service. The expense of the same was defrayed from the Life-boat Fund...