LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...

DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...

In the period from Good Friday, i6th April to Easter Monday, 19th April, inclusive, there were twenty-seven launches by life-boats and eight launches by inshore rescue boats.

These services resulted in the saving of...

MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...

Most of us, at some time or other, have enjoyed the experience of walking along a coastal path or beach.

To find out the hazards, the RNLI's website discussion forum, Waves, asked experts from all aspects of walking for...

22nd April. Two boys, brothers, went into the sea from a rowing boat to recover their lost paddles, but one got into difficulties, and while his brother was trying to help him their boat drifted away. Be- fore the life-boat could reach them...

On the morning of the 28th May the coast- guard telephoned that a trawler was ashore at Snab Point. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate ground swell and a thick fog.

The life-boat crew, most of whom were...

THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in...