LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

100 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of August, 1886.

A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.

ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which...

Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...

ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...

• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...

Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May

MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...

XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.

L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.

THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...

A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...

ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...