LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. W. Hopper, one of the Margate crew which went to Dunkirk in 1940. - View image in PDF

£2,700 or more. Through HQ Scottish Command help was given under 'OPMAC (Operations with Military Assistance to the Civil Community). The location was reconnoitered by the 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., and plans were drawn up...

Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 3.27 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, news was received that the sailing club rescue launch had broken an engine shaft while towing a dinghy out of difficulty near the Needle's Eye rocks. At 3.39 the life-boat...

THE Board of Trade have recently issued their most interesting and well- arranged Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns relative to the many shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom...

A VERY remarkable change in public opinion on the subject of the British mercantile marine has been wrought within the last few years; and none of the current topics of the day engross so large a share of the grave interest of reformers,...

THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.

THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...

Ix common with Their Majesties the King and Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has always been a warm sympathiser with the work of the Institution, and, in the midst of many national duties, he has...

THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...