LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

water, the submarine.surveying apparatus will be used in addition to the ordinary mode of sweep- ing ; the stages (with the divers down the chain- ladders on their platforms) being drawn by a screw-steamer about half a-mile the hour, there...

It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for 

RNLI Peterhead...

NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 4th January, 1881, at 3.45 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded to the Asque Spit and found the s.s. Brazilian, of Barrow, ashore there.

After the boat's...

HE rose at dawn, and, flushed with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reached the ship and caught the rope, And whistled to the morning star.

And while on deck he whistled loud, He heard a fierce mermaiden...

THE Committee of this Institution have found it necessary to reconsider the question regarding payments to their Life-boats' Crews, after they have rendered important assistance in saving property as well as lives, and accordingly the...

The Case tractor, T29, was the third type L to be converted for use by the RNU by the Roadless Traction Co and had been stationed at Redcar from 1938 to 1957 and then at Filey until 1964. It was sold to a York farmer who used it for pulling... - View image in PDF

When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.

I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...

I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.