LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...

tHen AnD noW State of the art When crowds gathered in Dover on 10 July 1930 to see the naming of a new 20m motor lifeboat, they were to witness an historic moment for the RnLi.

named Sir William Hillary after the founder of...

IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...

AUGUST 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At about 4.30 P.M. the R.A.F., Chatham, reported an aircraft down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham. A moderate N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderatesea. The No. 1 motor...

IN the Register of Wrecks, which, always forms a portion of each number of this Journal, it will be observed that in addition.

to the direction of the wind, a column of figures is added to denote its force, by a scale, the...

THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND ITS LIFE-BOATS.

XLIV. BROOKS.—The George and Anne, 32 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, 10 oars.

XLV. BRIGHSTONE GRANGE.—The Worcester Cadet, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10...

DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.

THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...