LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...

AN ALL-TIME RECORD was chalked up in January by Shoreline at the London Boat Show RNLI stand. During the 11 days of the show 907 new members signed on: 25 life governors, 80 governors, 306 family members and 496 ordinary full members. This...

As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...

THURSDAY, 6th June 1878: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...

On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...

Naval Architect dies Naval Architect Jack Tyrrell of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland died suddenly on 29 July 1988 at the age of 83.

Jack Tyrrell was one of Ireland's most imaginative naval architects, and in 1964 won...

The following is a list of the principal cases in which Rewards have been granted for saving life, by the National Shipwreck Institution, during the year 1851 :— January 2.—The emigrant barque Edmund, wrecked 19th Nov., at Kilkee, on the... - View image in PDF