LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

ESTABLISHED IN 1824.

SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...

SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...

Appeal to Honorary Secretaries.

THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station...

WORLDWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 372,000 PEOPLE DROWN EVERY YEAR

In too many countries, drowning is the leading killer of children. It affects the poorest in our world first and worst: people caught in the rhythms of everyday life...

Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...

FOR the first time in thirty-three years The Life-boat is appearing under a new editor. Mr. Charles Vince, the former editor, retired from the service of the Institution on the 1st of July, 1953.

His appointment as editor...

The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a "very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a, carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...