LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

oar'd the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead ; Helpless in that hour of danger, On the gallant vessel sped.

Sails were riven,—masts were broken By the tempest's fearful power; Fruitless seemed...

SINCE the publication of the last number of The Life-Boat Journal, the Board of Trade has issued its annual Blue Book —so deeply interesting to all taking an interest in sailors and shipping—giving in many admirably arranged tables the...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

"THE British seaman, though, he might be better, has not grown worse, and is plentiful enough for the requirements of trade." "No case is made out for the inter- ference of Government to increase the number, or improve the...

IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...

THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...

Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex and The Humber, Yorkshire.

LIEUTENANT H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, E.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the Motor Life-boat which was sent last autumn to Southend-on-Sea, on 8th July last, the name given to the boat...