LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather I was hazy....

FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER,...

IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...

• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.

Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...

WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...

ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...

Sail Safari -- it's a lifeboat knockout! Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25...

It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...