LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE hundred and thirteenth Annual Meeting of the governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Friday, 9th April. Nearly 2,000 people were present.

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...

In support of Tyneside lifeboat appeal, a TWA holiday for two in the USA was offered as a prize in a special draw which brought in £4,820. Here, present at the draw on Independence Day, July 4, are (/. to r.): Graeme Stanton, editor of... - View image in PDF

WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...

FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...

PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...

Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue operation of the 26 crew of MSC Napoli on 18 January 2007.

The vessel, 41 miles SE of The Lizard,was taking on water through a hole in... - View image in PDF

Two RNLI lifeguards took a ‘rewarding and humbling’ trip in December 2012 to train other lifeguards in Senegal, West Africa. Lifeguards Tim Doran, from the Causeway Coast, and Vaughan Lawson, from Devon, travelled to Yoff Beach in Dakar, at...

oar'd the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead ; Helpless in that hour of danger, On the gallant vessel sped.

Sails were riven,—masts were broken By the tempest's fearful power; Fruitless seemed...