LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THURSDAY, 6th December, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

UNEMPLOYMENT, strikes, the worldwide trade depression, and the political uncertainty—in a word, the full reaction after the years of war from which we have been suffering during this present year—have necessarily had a grave effect on all...

YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat...

Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...

Geoffrey Pallet, editor of Coastguard magazine, describes the service which acts as co-ordinator of all marine search and rescue around the shores of the United Kingdom. He also passes on some useful advice to visitors to the coast.'LATE...

Swords of honour Phenomenal, unselfish, generous - just some of the words used by Irish President Mary McAleese on her recent visit to the RNLIThe RNLI has 43 lifeboat stations in the island of Ireland to support, from Lough Swilly in...

AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...

His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.

By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...