LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HENRY BRITTON, for 50 years Coxswain of the Life-boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, died on March 20th last, at the age of 79.

He was appointed Coxswain in "1884, when the Station was established, and retired in 1914. During...

On the 20th August, at daylight, a small vessel, which afterwards proved to be the smack Hope, of Dublin, was observed to be on shore on the Horse Bank at the entrance to the Mersey. The Southport life-boat, in con- nection with the NATIONAL...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...

PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Car- narvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...

This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...

DURING its first century the Institution awarded its Gold Medal for gallantry and conspicuous service in saving life from shipwreck, ninety-five times. Fourteen Gold Medals were also awarded for other forms of service to the Institution, but...

THE subject of Anchors is one of such vast importance to the Life-boat Service, and of so deep an interest to the whole sea-faring community, that it is felt that the able Paper, entitled "Anchors: Old Forms and Recent...

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