LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CRITICISMS have been expressed in recent years as to the great cost of the construction of the Institution's Life- boats. It would seem, from these, criticisms, that the public do not fully: understand either the nature of Life-boat{...

As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...

NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.—A life-boat station, in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has been established at New Brighton, on the south shore of the Mersey, near Liverpool, and a tubular lifeboat, on the plan of the late H....

JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.

JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...

I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...

During the past year Irish lifeboatmen have served with courage and honour. Among other services the Kilmore Quay lifeboat crew experienced the first capsizes of a modern lifeboat; they and the whole station acquitted themselves with...

Radios, helicopters, MRCCs - they have all altered the face of modern Search and Rescue.

But there are things for which the lifeboat is still best, as two friends of yachting writer and television broadcaster Malcolm McKeag...