LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 20th October, at 11.30 A.M., the Russian brig- antine Porthan, of Aland, bound from Oruskjoldsrik to Antwerp, being water- logged, and in danger of foundering at her anchors outside the entrance of the River Tees, slipped her cables...

Women from Prestatyn Inner Wheel visited Rhyl Lifeboat Station to deliver a considerable donation to their lifeboat appeal, after former Coxswain Peter Robinson gave them a talk about the station’s history.
The women enjoyed a...

Naming Ceremonies EASTBOURNE, JULY 3 and ISLAY, JULY 28 Eastbourne IT SEEMED AS IF the whole population of Eastbourne, together with its holiday makers, had assembled round the lifeboat museum on the afternoon of Tuesday July 3. The occasion...

Yacht on rocks A RADIO MESSAGE at 0924 on Thursday July 15, 1982, reported that a yacht was aground in the area of the Western Carracks, three miles west of St Ives. The honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station immediately assembled...

THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...

We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...

THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...

On the 18th De- cember, the Dutch galliot EpimacTws, of Amsterdam, was seen to be running for the shore, with a flag of distress up, 4 miles north of Berwick-on-Tweed. The life-boat at that place was at once launched, and pro- ceeding to her...