LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.

The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....

Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Apologies! You may have been one of several members who experienced strange happenings which coincided with the delivery of your Autumn journal, and unreserved apologies are due to all...

RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.

This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...

IT would appear from a Yellow Book published in March last by order of the Inspector-General of Customs at Pekin that no Life-boats or life-saving stations are established along the coast of China excepting those in the district of Canton,...

On the llth June the Danish schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov, at anchor in St. Austel Bay, drove into shallow and broken water; when, hoisting a signal of distress, the Institution's life- boat at Polkerris, near Fowey, proceeded to her...

IT is just eleven years since the service to the Hospital Ship Rohilla, wrecked ofi Whitby on 30th October, 1914. It will be remembered how the Whitby No. 2 Boat, although badly damaged, made two journeys to the wreck, rescuing five women...

ON llth February, with a gale blowing from W.N.W. and a very heavy sea running, the Norwegian steamer Taormina, of Oslo, with a crew of eighteen, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour when the tide was low. She struck on the Doom Bar, and lay...

THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.

The quickest, and therefore the most...