LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...

On the 26th October, while it was blowing a heavy gale from the north, with a high sea on, two vessels at anchor in the roadstead hoisted signals of distress. The same valuable life-boat was immediately launched, and went to their assistance...

« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.

THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...

On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...

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Blyth, Northumberland.

THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...

CAPTAIN CREWE READ, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Swansea Coast-guard Division, has forwarded to the Institution the following account of the resuscitation of a sailor apparently dead from drowning :—" At a late hour in the evening...

ENGLAND—that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—is a great, a wealthy, a populous, and a powerful country. But it is likewise essentially a maritime one. If not maritime it would have been nothing; for without that...