LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...

A PASSAGE up the Thames by the new Walmer life-boat in March, 1959, gave civil servants in appreciable numbers an opportunity of inspecting one of the boats which has been provided for the Institution by the civil servants' own...

ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.

The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...

A LESSER KNOWN BRANCH of the RNLI is the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society. It was formed in 1964 to cater for the needs of those with a technical or historical interest in the work of the Institution. Initially there were only eight members...

By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

IN February, 1823, Colonel Sir William Hillary, soldier, author, philanthropist and greatest of Life-boat men, issued his appeal to the nation, advocating the formation...

The Calendar.

THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...

The Calendar.

THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by...

WITH " revolving years" the seasons of storm again and again occur, and each season brings more and more prominently into view the " Life-boat and its Work," whilst each seems to demand for that work a greater and greater...