LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Annual Report of the Institution for 1929 will be issued shortly after the Annual Meeting of the Governors on 11th April, and we publish the following article in the hope that many of those who have in the past considered the Annual...

OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...

Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...

JANUARY MEETING LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX. Three boats were out fishing on the 11th November, 1939, off Littlehampton, when the engine of one, the Margaret, broke down. Another boat, the Duchess of York, promised to tow her in after she had set...

The Christmas Gales.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.

THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...

HRH the Duke of Kent receives a commemorative plate during his visit to Harwich. Also pictured (I to r): Mr H. Bell, branch chairman, Mr K. Brand, longest serving crew member, Capl. R.

Shaw, honorary secretary and Rear... - View image in PDF

(Lower left) Local radio station Classic Gold broadcast live from the event on Friday. Presenter Geoff Barker is pictured talking to actor Robin Asquith who took time out from a local appearance to visit Open Das.. - View image in PDF

OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...