LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHEN one has, for fifteen years, held an office that any man must be proud and thankful to occupy, it is not easy to say good-bye. Yet the time has come for my retirement from the post of Secretary of the Institution, and I must take leave...

LXIX. TRAMORE.—The Alfred Trower, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.

IT may not be out of place to preface this article with a description of the old and interesting city of Waterford, which is in close proximity to Tramore, and...

DOVER.—A new life-boat and transporting- carriage have been sent to Dover by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the former boat stationed there being considered to be too small, and not to have sufficient rowing power. The new boat is 32...

Douglas lifeboat's inflatable X boat waits at the foot of the cliff for the second youth to be lowered. - View image in PDF

ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...

On 28th August, which was Mechanic William F. Mann's last day with the Exmouth life-boat after 18 years, he was called out when the inshore inflatable craft Fundraiser, taking part in the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race, was not checked off at...

The winner of the January crossword—there was only one correct solution submitted—was: Mr. F. Ackroyd, 68 Horncastle Road, Boston, Lines. Solution to crossword was: Across: 1-Lifeboatman; 7-Banana, 8-Align, 9-Nod, 12-Emmie, 13-Parody,...

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