LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?

Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...

CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...

THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...

SCHOOLS FOR SAILORS.* THIRD ARTICLE.

IN completion of what I have before said, while advocating the claims of sailors upon public aid for special instruction, I will now only make a few supplementary remarks upon the...

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

THE Centenary celebrations began with the meeting, in the Guildhall, described on another page, on the Institution's hundredth birthday—4th March. They are being...

A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...

Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.

NINE presentations of Centenary Vel- lums to Stations have taken place during the past summer at Howth, Courtmacsherry, Arklow, Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown), Holy Island...

LAST JULY, for the first time in its history and as one of its contributions to Maritime England Year, the Institution opened its head office and depot at Poole to the public. It was an entirely new departure which provided a unique...