LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..

• Sailing Years, an autobiography by K. Adlard Coles (Granada Publishing, £9.95) is .fascinating reading because alongside the tales of this well-known sailor there emerges the story of the development of sailing and racing offshore. I...

SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...

danger they put out. They did not reach and rescue the boys until they were two miles out and their boat half full of water. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 2.30 in the afternoon of...

Yesterday . . . 'The Illustrated London News' records the first launch, in 1867, of Licensed Victualler, the first RNLI lifeboat to be stationed at Hunstanton. Boat, carriage and a 'commodious house' were paid for by the...

Torbay (Devon).

Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...

THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...

Two sailors clung to a ledge beneath Welsh cliffs, lashed by waves with the tide rising around them

With the sea and wind driving directly onto the rocky shoreline, this would be an extremely...