LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...

We lament to record the death, on the 4th January last, of this distinguished marine artist and Member of the Royal Academy.

By Mr. Cooke's death the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . has lost one of its oldest friends....

THE Life-saving Service in the United States, which is a branch of the Govern- ment, has recently issued its Annual Report, giving full particulars of its operations during the year which ended on the 30th June, 1896.

We...

CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...

Abersoch, Gwynedd September 13, October 15 and 25 Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 1, October 14 and 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 9 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 2, 5 (three times), 15 and November 4...

FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...

THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...

Two new motor life-boats have been sent to the Irish coast this year: Kil- more, County Wexford, and Howth, County Dublin.

Kilmore, County Wexford.

The new motor life-boat at Kilmore has replaced a pulling...