LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Austin Motor Company has generously offered to give the Institution one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it makes for a ship's life-boat. The first cheque for £240, for all engines which It had delivered up to...

HASTINGS.—On the 18th February, the schooner Apollo, of Bandholm, bound from London to Cette with a cargo of currants, drove on to the rocks near Rock-a-Nore in a N.W. wind and heavy swell. The1 Lifeboat proceeded to her, and as it was found...

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 2nd March, 1938, a message was received from the coastguard at Porthdinllaen that a vessel off Criccieth was burning flares. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderate...

SIR JOHN GHEST GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., died on the 9th of March, 1958, at the age of 89. He joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1921 and was appointed a Vice- President in 1932. He resigned from the Committee in 1956....

This service took place last year: No. 6 Life-boat Area Plymouth, South Devon - At 7.37 a.m.

on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a dismasted yacht was burning red flares and drifting rapidly about one mile...

Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...

Weather deteriorated ON THE EVENING of Wednesday, September 8, 1976, the yacht Up Spirits anchored in New Quay Bay. Her owner and one member of the crew remained on board while the other slept ashore.

During the night the...

ON WEDNESDAY November 21, 1979, 22 months after January storms dramatically isolated Margate's lifeboathouse by destroying the town's pier on which it stood, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38) was...