LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...

No. of When No. | STATION. Length. Breadth. Oare. Station* ENGLAND. Ft. ID. Ft. in. 1 NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-ON-TWEED - - -: ...

AUG. 5TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. During the evening a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman to Oban, to be sent thence to the Maternity Hospital, Glasgow. No steamer was available and he was afraid that she would bleed to...

PERHAPS the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships, has been the unfitness for "other purposes of any such articles commonly in use. Thus it may...

Following the service by the Swanage life-boat, recorded elsewhere in this issue, the secretary of the Swanage branch received a letter of appreciation, the opening paragraphs of which are quoted below, together with a donation.

Clinging to the Devonshire coastal rock, Dartmouth is both a fi shing and naval port. Its waters also teem with leisure craft, jostling for the town’s 3,000-plus berths. More than 2M people fi nd themselves on the River Dart each year and...

Peak performance: On the longest day in June last year Richard Price, a new crew member at Fleetwood lifeboat station, led a team of 36 people up to Scotland for the start of a three peak marathon. The team climbed Ben Nevis, (some of them... - View image in PDF

As the years roll on the interest of the people of Great Britain in maritime matters would seem to increase rather than to diminish, and we therefore feel that in drawing the attention of the public, and more especially that part of it...