LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLB Charles Hem. - View image in PDF

THERE are few matters of greater importance to a maritime country like England than the preservation and improvement of its harbours. To the extent of our sea-coast, and the bountiful distribution of safe and commodious harbours on so many...

AFTEK their busiest winter on the seas for twenty years, life-boatmen have been very busy during the past year on the air. There have been nine broadcasts in which English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh coxswains have taken...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

THE beautiful obverse of this medal, executed by the late L. C. WYOIT, Esq., represents the bust of QUEEN VICTORIA, Her Majesty's locks gracefully waving and gathered in a...

Rnlb Charles Brown. - View image in PDF

Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Doable legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.

Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...

FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...

MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...