LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WITHIN the last twelve months four remarkable cases of the stranding of large steamships have taken place on our shores, each of such vessels carrying a numerous crew besides a considerable number of passengers. Two of these steamers in the...

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NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...

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...

THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer

Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...

" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.

'•What, sir...