LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...

MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...

During the International Boat Show at Earls Court a giant lifeboatshaped cheque for £110,000, towards Newhaven's future Waveney class lifeboat, was presented to the RNLI by the Round Table. (I. to r.) Dinah May, Miss Great Britain,... - View image in PDF

(Below) Ken Voice, coxswain of Shoreham lifeboat, received a cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton, chief ranger of the Court Sussex Elm, Independent Order of Foresters. The money was raised by court members during... - View image in PDF

THE winter of 1859-60 will command a mournful distinction in meteorological annals. Other winters may be found, perhaps, of equal severity and duration ; nor would it be difficult, we dare say, to produce examples of springs as backward as...

Jan. 1.—Voted 5?. to the master and crew of the steam-tug Telephone, of Falmouth, for saving five fishing-luggers, some of their nets, and their crews, numbering twenty men, which were in much danger off Exmouth during a heavy gale from the...

THE LIFEBOAT ORGANISATIONS of the world are to a large extent concentrated in Europe. Taking the wider aspect of general sea rescue, outside Europe it is mainly in the hands of the naval services or, as in the United States and Canada, an...

An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...