LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COXSWAIN WILLIAM ROBINSON of Newbiggin, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Dent, the representatives of the twenty-five women launchers of Newbiggin, and the five other Bronze Medallists who attended the Annual Meeting to be decorated, were the guests of...

Together we build a better engine Lifeboats Roval National Lifeboat Institution Royal Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barms Ltd for over 20 years.

These engines have been specially modified to the...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

JUNE 18TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A motor boat had been reported, showing distress signals, but nothing was found.-Rewards, £7 16s..

NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.

NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...

Woolacombe, Croyde and Blackpool Sands beaches in Devon have been added this Summer to the 59 others already patrolled by RNLI lifeguards. Visitors to these beaches have already benefited from the eagle-eyed vigilance and professional... - View image in PDF

MARCH 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.58 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that a vessel was sinking, after an explosion, about two miles S.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A moderate southerly breeze was blowing. The sea was...

V.—MARGATE.

The Quiver, No. I.

This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.

A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...