LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swanage, Dorset-At 4.55 p.m. on 31st May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles south of Dancing Ledge. At 5.3 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched and at 5.27 she reached the...

OUR Great Exhibition—nay, the World's Great Exhibition—is open to the world's view at last. T'he most numerous, the grandest collection of the useful works of man that was ever brought together within the walls of a single...

TILE Committee of Management heard with very great regret of the sudden death on April 6th of their colleague Captain Ernest William Swan, C.R.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R. Captain Swan Ix-came a member of the Committee in 1939, and brought to...

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MORTAR for MAROONS.

This Signal Maroon has been adopted by the Institution in place of the Rocket Distress Signal because:

1. As there is no metal in its construction the danger of an accident through...

JUNE 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

Seven soldiers had gone fishing in a small boat. There was a dense fog.

Nothing was found, and it was learned later that the men had been picked up by a trawler. An...

THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...

IN December, 1945, the Institution sent to Cromer one of the first two of a new type of 46-feet Watson -cabin life-boat. In them, for the first time, the steering wheels were placed amidships instead of at the stern. This boat was sent to...