LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to...

UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...

WHILE the engineers of the Institution were engaged in constructing the new launching Slipway at Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire, for the Motor Life-boat which was sent to that Station in March last, the foreman in charge of the works Mr. T...

FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1870.

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WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....

On the 17th July, during a moderate N.N.W. gale and rough sea, information was received that a barque was ashore on the Kentish Knock Sands, with a flag signal flying, which could not be distinguished on account of the rain. The No. 2 Life-...

The Life-Boat House at Weymouth. - View image in PDF

ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.

The Motor Life-boat was launched...