LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRK.—While a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, on the night of the 5th January, 1902, signals of distress were observed from the schooners Emma Louise and Elizabeth Miller, both...

AT the request of the General Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, HIS GRACE THE PRESIDENT has addressed the following important communication to its several Branches, inviting them anew to assist to carry on with unflagging...

YACHT FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the Wyke coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a wireless message received from the yacht Themlyay, of Hull, stating that she...

The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.

At 2.10 the life-boat The...

Launches 41 Lives rescued 56

APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ...

76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the...

IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 21st day of March, 1891. The Most Honourable the MARQUIS of HAR- TINGTON, M.P., in the Chair, the following...