LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

by Joanne O'Brien/Format The medallists at the 1996 Presentation of Awards, pictured at Tower Bridge before the ceremony. With them are the family rescued by Little and Broad Haven's D class and the two girls plucked to safety from... - View image in PDF

In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...

OCTOBER 10TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At about 10.30 A.M. the harbour entrance had become dangerous owing to a heavy fresh which was running out on the ebb tide. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. Four...

LIFE-BOAT CROSSWORD—4 0 The winners of the April crossword were: 1st prize (£1), Dr. J. J. Drever, Brunton Place, Edinburgh, 2nd prize (£1), Mr. R. W. McLaren, Grange Park, Woodland Avenue, Cramleigh, Surrey; 3rd prize (£1),...

Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...

Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...

ENGLAND—that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—is a great, a wealthy, a populous, and a powerful country. But it is likewise essentially a maritime one. If not maritime it would have been nothing; for without that...