LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth lifeboat station, in Dorset, was established in 1869 to replace Portland station, which had closed down in 1850. Funded by the Earl of Stratford, the lifeboat gave assistance to vessels in distress on the north and east sides of...

This number of The Lifeboat is really the June number. It was almost ready to be printed when, towards the end of June, afire at the works of the Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge, destroyed nearly the whole of the type. The Committee of...

Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.

May Meeting.

Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...

Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.

DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...

As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...

THE Annual General Meeting was held at the Mansion House, in the morning of March 4th, 1924, for the purpose of dealing with statutory business, S r Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee, presiding.

The CHAIRMAN :...

CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For tile Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED in 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...