LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place

The station was established in 1852 by the...

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Founded 4th March, 1824,—Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.

PATRON.

HIS MOST GRACIOUS Majesty...

THURSDAY, 8th October, 1903.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

AT 1.55 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage coast- guard told the honorary secretary of the Swanage life-boat station, Mr. W.

Powell, that the tug Flying Kestrel had passed a distress message to...

Date Station 1960 Jan. 1 Scarborough ..

„ 2 Walton and Frinton „ 3 Kilmore „ 13 Filey ..

„ 16 Whitby „ 17 Swanage „ 19 Southend-on-Sea 20 Arklow „ 20 Tynemouth ..

„ 21 Gal way Bay...

IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...

THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...