LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...

OF all the Blue Books printed year by year for " Her Majesty's Stationery Office," probably not one communicates such deeply interesting information as that to be found in the volume containing the elaborate Tables drawn up and...

THE oldest existing life-boat station in England lies half-hidden behind a scrap metal yard on the Sunderland docks. The road to the life-boathouse twists and bends between low-lying warehouses and shipyard buildings towards the river Wear,...

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...

THURSDAY, 12th June, 1890.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bait., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and...

There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...

APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON.—At about 9.50 A.M. on the 8th March a dismasted vessel was seen in the Bay, driving towards the North Tail Sand. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, accompanied by a heavy ground sea. In reply to her signals of distress...

Torbay, Devon.—Shortly after noon on the 19th August, 1938, the Churston police reported, through the coastguard, that a boy on a bathing float was being carried out to sea off Broadsands. A moderate W.S.W.

breeze was...