LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE abstracts from the Wreck Register for the year ended the 30th June 1885, which, owing to circumstances, were not published by the Board of Trade in 1886, have now been issued, and are full of interesting matter. We propose, in ac-...

FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm-King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...

DROP A PEBBLE into the water, and who knows where the ripples will end? Fifteen years ago Mrs Montague Kavanagh suggested that the Dublin Lifeboat Committee should hold an annual sale of work as a major fundraising effort. In essence it was...

At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of March, 1861;, Vice-Admiral the Eight Honourable the Earl of HARDWICKE in the Chair, The following report of the...

At 2 A.M.

| on 15th November, during a strong S.E.

! gale and very heavy sea, signals of | distress were observed from a vessel I about five miles from Ballycotton. The | alarm was given, ...

Tuesday, 31st December, 1929.

PAID £17,250 15s. 3d. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat estab- lishments....

Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...

EQUIP YOURSELF FOR ANY VOYAGE '. . . every point of sailing under all rigs and in all weathers, meteorology, navigation and boat handling it should equip the yachtsman mentally and materially for any kind of voyage.' Sea Breezes '...