LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1937 the coastguard organization took action in 314 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress, in difficul- ties, or overdue off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern...

IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.1 p.m.

on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties with engine trouble. The h'fe-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched...

On the night of the 2nd November, at 10 P.M., blowing a heavy gale from the north, signals of distress were seen from Lowestoft: the life-boat was at once launched through a heavy surf, and pro- ceeded under sail to the spot, where the...

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Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.

Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.

February Meeting.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...

The results of The Birmingham Post's children's poster competition are as follows: seniors (11 to 16 years): 1st—David John Brown, aged 15, of Fabian Crescent, Shirley, Solihull; 2nd—Lyn Bonner, aged 11, of Mayswood Road, Solihull;...

THURSDAY, 7th Jan., 1875: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.U.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 and...