LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE much regret to have again to record the death of another tried friend and valuable supporter of, the Shipwreck Institution, in the person of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., its late esteemed Chairman. Although he had occupied that office...

GOURDON, SCOTLAND.—On the 5th Nov.

last the new Life-boat recently provided for this station was publicly inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. The village was gaily decorated for the occasion, streamers of flags...

THE ninety-first Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 21st, 1915, at 3.30 p.m. The Right Hon.

Walter...

RUNAWAY SPEEDBOAT THE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, inshore rescue boat had an unusual service on l l th August when 'the Coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat was going round in circles' about one and a half miles...

THE SCENE OF ACTION now moves from the design office to the boatyard (William Osborne Ltd, Littlehampton) which will have been sent the lines plan of the boat (illustrated at very small scale at the foot of this page). It is the lines plan...

Charlie Clifford from the west Midlands of England is the RNLI’s second-youngest-ever official supporter, having been signed up as a Storm Force member at just 4 hours old.

Charlie’s family has a long history of...

WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...

A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...