LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THURSDAY, 6th January, 1876: 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 Corre- spondence, and Wreck...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.

A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.

—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

THE Centenary celebrations began with the meeting, in the Guildhall, described on another page, on the Institution's hundredth birthday—4th March. They are being...

Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...

Ten small boats WEST MERSEA deputy launching authority was informed by HM Coastguard at 1652 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that an upturned sailing dinghy had been sighted l'/2 miles east of Shinglehead Point. Maroons were fired and at 1700...

While our lifesaving purpose has always stayed the same, our rescue map has constantly evolved since 1824 – so what are the latest developments around the coast?

We have 235 established...

HARWICH.—On the 19th February a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse and signals were shown by the Sunk Light-vessel. At 8.45 A.M. the Life-boat Springwell put out, and was towed by the steam-tug Harwich to the Sunk,...

R.N.LI, rely on Mermaid THE NEW ROTHER CLASS LIFEBOATS, as those already in service like the Margate Lifeboat shown here, rely on Mermaid diesel engines for continuous trouble-free power in every emergency. You need reliability too, so...