LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The oak of the RNLI grew from the acorn of Sir William Hillary's famous Appeal to the British Nation in 1823.

In the nature of nineteenth century writings the Appeal is too fulsome to reproduce in its entirety. Extracts...

1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour clearly shows hazardous rocks. Improvements to harbour works, running out from Douglas Head and St Mary's Rock, proposed by Sir William Hillary, are hatched.

by courtesy of the Manx...

The Life- boat John Ashbury, on this station went off, during a strong wind, before daybreak on the 20th February, in response to signals of distress shown by the ship River Nith, of Liverpool, which was bound to that port from Calcutta with...

WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...

Since 1972, the Crystal Vaudeville Company, made up of local amateurs, has put on three successful seasons of Old Tyme Music Hall shows in Aberystwyth. All proceeds go to charity, and in 1974, for the second time, a donation was made to the...

Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...

DECEMBER 21ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

At 1.45 in the afternoon the motor fishing boat Laurel put out from St. Abbs to search for another local boat, the motor fishing boat Faithful, which, with a crew of three on board,...

THE British and Northern Shipping Agency opened to the public their new Swedish Lloyd steamer Patricia, berthed by London Bridge on Sunday, May 27th, 1951. Four thousand one hundred and fourteen people went over her, and the gross takings...