LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1892 a man in Chatham began to subscribe to the Institution. He con- tinued to subscribe until his death fifty- three years later, in 1945. Since then his widow has continued the subscrip- tion in his name..

an act of common humanity at what would seem a trifling cost ? The reasons operating on the mind of the man who thus " passes by on the other side " are these: public journals accounts given by sailors j l - That the loss of...

TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner The Saint, of Padstow, while bound from Par, Cornwall, to Gravelines, with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Warden Ledge in the early morning of the 2nd May. On receipt of information from the...

In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat

Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...

EVERY reader of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will remember how the whole civilized world was appalled at the sad news of the wreck of the s.s. Berlin at the mouth of the Hook of Holland on the 21st February, 1907, when so many precious lives were...

MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...

Ths beautiful setting of Longstock Water Gardens is set to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF

ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months previously ; and it was also the first...