LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

is now some seventeen years since we felt it our duty to call the attention of the public to the lamentable disuse into which ; the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since that period great advances have been made in teaching this important...

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. — The Life- Boat stationed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION many years since at Sheringham has been replaced by a new one, of the " Liverpool" type, 41 feet long and 11 feet wide, fitted to row 16...

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Mr Subbers was transferred to the lifeboat by stretcher (see below) and, back on land, was taken to the district hospital for treatment.. - View image in PDF

MRS. EDITH MA.NBY MRS. EDITH MANBY of Codsall, Staf- fordshire, died in February, 1951, at the age of nearly 86. For almost fifty years she had been an active life-boat worker in the Codsall area, and for some years was president of the...

Jan. 9.—Voted the Silver Medal to FREDK. CHARLES HICKS, who by swimming saved, at imminent risk of his own life, the Captain of the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who had been washed on to the Helwether rook after the vessel was...

IN previous issues of this Journal * the building and testing of a Life-boat have been described, and it is proposed in this and ensuing articles to give some account of the further life history of the boat.

The boat being...

WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...