LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN April, 1883, the ship I commanded was homeward bound from Australia to Cork, for orders; we were just off New Zealand, about the worst place "for wind till you come to Cape Horn on the passage.

A heavy N.W. gale...

WHEN PLANNING the Shoreline appeal to fund a 37'6" Rother Lifeboat to be named RNLB Shoreline, the first target set was £100,000 by the time the boat is ready to launch for her initial trials.

That target is...

Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...

Kits and pieces Sir - I would like to point out to Mr C. J.

Richardson (Your Letters, Spring 1990 issue) that there are several lifeboat models on the market.

Two models are currently available as complete...

A Magnificent Group of Services.

19th~21st November, 1916.

SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.

Unusual...

ABERYSTWITH, CARDIGANSHIRE.—The Life-boat stationed here many years since has been replaced by a new self-righting boat, which is 35 ft. long by 8 ft. 6 in.

wide and rows ten oars double-banked.

She is...

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...