LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1868
As the year rolls round, and in the midst of great storms, this sad tidings of disaster; at sea, the Wreck Register, makes its ap- pearance, and brings afresh to our recollec- tion the scenes of desolation witnessed on too many parts of our...
Category: Annual Reports
Stormy Stan Says...
Stormy Stan, the hero of 'Storm Force', the RNLI's club for the under-16s, appears regularly in the club's magazine Storm Force News. Here is a taster of the tales he spins and the advice he gives to young...
Category: Articles
Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford Branch Had Highflying Ideas for Fund Raising for John Stoker a Branch Committee Member Persuaded Some of His Frien
Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch had highflying ideas for fund raising, for John Stoker, a branch committee member, persuaded some of his friends to make a sponsored parachute jump.
When all the jumpers... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Augustine Courtauld After Whom the New Poole Lifeboat Has Been Named (Above)
The late Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named (above).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below Left: An RAF SAR Helicopter With The Trearddur Bay Inshore Lifeboat
Below left: An RAF SAR helicopter with the Trearddur Bay inshore lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
3. Shore Crew and Lifeboat Crew Work Together for a Safe Recovery
3. Shore crew and lifeboat crew work together for a safe recovery. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary
THE Institution has to deplore a very great loss in the death of Miss JANE HAY, the Honorary Secretary of the St. Abbs Station, which took place on the 26th January last. Miss Hay was a remarkable personality, who united a strong love of her...
Category: Obituaries
The Use of the Lead
THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.
In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell
Ex-coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell, Northumberland, died on the 18th April at the age of seventy-three. He was a member of one of two families, both named Brown, who in that small village compose the Life-boat crew, while the wives,...
Category: Obituaries
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles