LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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WE have had frequent opportunities to witness the high value which our own countrymen attach to the medals of this Institution, some 600 of which have been voted to them for acts of gallantry; and we have much satisfaction in extracting the...

Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...

ON the morning of the 13th February all the Holy Island fishing-boats, with one exception, were out fishing, when the sea I rose rapidly, and at 9 o'clock the Rev. D. Bryson, Vicar of Holy Island and Honorary Secretary of the Holy Island...

AUGUST 11TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 7.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting about six miles N.W. by W. of Towan Head. A N.W. by W.

wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat...

THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...

ON th« invitation of the Mayor of Calais a party representing the Life-boat Stations on the Kentish coast crossed to Calais on Sunday, 14th August, in the Margate Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough, to be present at the unveiling, on the...

Lifeboat stations around the coast are subject to immense wear and tear from the launch and recovery of lifeboats and exposure to the elements. If lifeboats are to remain operational their boathouses and slipways must, however, be kept in a...