LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M. on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel with a telescope it...

lisions.—It appears then, that the number of wrecks, casualties, and collisions from all causes on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas, reported during the year 1873-4, was 1,803, being 401 less than the...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1911, The Eight Honourable the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., G.B., in the...

Jan. 6.—Three men put off in a boat and saved a boy who had fallen overboard from a boat off Wexford, Ireland.—Reward, 15s.

Jan. 9.—Four men. put off in a coble and saved the crew of five men from the boat of the steamer...

THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.

THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...

NORTH WEST DISTRICT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 6.40 p.m. on 3oth May, 1967, it was learned that a boy, who had fallen off the Great Orme, would have to be taken off by boat as it would be very difficult to haul him up the cliff face....

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...