LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton-on-the-Naze.

The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...

THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence...

Sponsored walks are common enough these days but the 15th Long Eaton Venture Scout unit, in Nottinghamshire, decided to bring some water into the proceedings—by holding a sponsored row on 5th July, 1969. The proceeds were divided between the...

THE life-boat service broke two records in 1938. Its life-boats were launched to the rescue more often, and they saved or helped to save from destruction more boats and vessels, than ever before in its history of 115 years.

Simon Cooke, a member of Torbay lifeboat crew, unearths an unusual explanation for an unusual service...

Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many hours searching for people reported missing , but not many get called...

Galway Bay. At 3.50 p.m. on ist December, 1965, the local doctor notified the honorary secretary that a five-year-old boy who had a broken leg needed transport to hospital on the mainland. No other boat was available for this purpose, so the...

READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...

BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...