LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Oboerst.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend.

" Royal National Life-boat Institution....

The history of the Institution is now i being written, and will be published in j j the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.

6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.45 P.M. on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a sailing yacht was anchored three miles south of the look-out in a dangerous position. A strong and increasing S.S....

Zetland, the oldest survmg lifeboat is of the Greathead type and was built in 1800. - View image in PDF

THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND ITS LIFE-BOATS.

XLIV. BROOKS.—The George and Anne, 32 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, 10 oars.

XLV. BRIGHSTONE GRANGE.—The Worcester Cadet, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10...

Blackpool, Lancashire - At 10.40 a.m. on 4th June, 1966, the owners of the drilling rig BedfordX stated that the rig was in danger a quarter of a mile west of the central pier owing to a large steel caisson having broken loose. There were...

Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.

Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...