LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...

THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...

Thank you to everyone who organised and supported SOS events around the UK and RoI on 30 January. SOS day is the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, and this year’s event was well supported in schools, companies and clubs, and RNLI fundraising...

Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.

Several hundred...

New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...

MARCH 17TH. - PORT ST. MARY, AND DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. A steamer had stranded, near Fort Island, Isle of Man, but the crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards : Port St. Mary, £25 8s. 9d. ;...

THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy gales on Christmas night and the following day. During the seven days of the Christmas week, from 21st December to 27th December,...

IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...