LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Over the last few years the lifeboat service has been in a strong financial position. It has been able to plan for the future and expand itslifesaving activities, thanks to the generosity and support of the public. However the continued...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the Offices of the Society, John Street, Adelphi, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1854,, CAPTAIN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, VICE...

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FRESH launched to meet the swelling gale, At morn the gallant ship sets sail; All taut and trim, with canvas gay, Her stemson cleaves the sparkling spray.

The sky is fair—the prosperous breeze Floats...

The Women of Newbiggin.

Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.

ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they...

The s.s. Har- lington, of London, belonging to the P. and O. Company, stranded on the Gunfleet Sands, whilst bound from Middlesbrough to London laden with iron, on the 2nd December. At 2.30 P.M.

the...

About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th October, whilst a strong northerly gale was blowing, a steamer which proved to be the King Ja Ja, of Swansea, bound from Newcastle to Methil, with a cargo of steam rails, was sighted in a...

AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...

AS THE CLIMAX of 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the RNLI will be playing a prominent part in the 1975 International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 1 to 11. The very first thing visitors approaching the exhibition from Warwick...