LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...

THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.

Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...

• Storms brought devastation to Margate during the winter of 1978, destroying its pier and wrecking the lifeboat station. However, as a result of the research which followed to replace the lost service boards of Margate's lifeboats,...

A seventeen-year-old boy, Andrew Richards of Dolgellau, and his companion, sixteen-year-old Mark Heywood of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...

DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.

TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...

Councillor K. J. Holland, mayor of Skegness and a former coxswain, and Jack Roughton, chairman of the Lincolnshire appeal, lay foundation stones for Skegness's new lifeboat station. (Photo Bob Lawrence). - View image in PDF

It would have been easy to prolong our stay at St Donat's Castle and learn more of the work of the world famous United World College of the Atlantic and its multinational student population, but time and the seasons are moving on and, if...

THE annual meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of March, 1957. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...