LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...

WE regret to announce the death, #t the ripe age of ninety years, of the Rev. Chancellor Owen LI. Williams, of Llanrhyddlad Rectory, Cemlyn, Angle- sey, a Life-boat Station with which the reverend gentleman had been closely and honourably...

T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Pygmalion, of Fleetwood, had broken down off Manghold Head and needed help.

The life-boat...

For Coastal, Off-Shore or Ocean Rescue FAIREY MARINE Purpose- built all-weather craft INTERCEPTOR Instant response and immediate 7.6m Fast Reaction first aid prior to arrival of more Rescue Craft conventional Life...

THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.

At low tide men have...

Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...

After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...