LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 23RD. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. The French life-boat Jean Charcot, now in the service of the Institution, was on passage from Padstow to Milford Haven, but as a strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, the life-boat was unable...

As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...

Lifeboats representing the lifesaving associations of France, the Federal Republic of West Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden made the voyage to the West Country last summer to be present for the opening weekend of the International Lifeboat...

THERE are few matters of greater importance to a maritime country like England than the preservation and improvement of its harbours. To the extent of our sea-coast, and the bountiful distribution of safe and commodious harbours on so many...

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

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Her Most Gracious Majesty the...

Broken in two A MESSAGE from HM Coastguard was received by New Brighton lifeboat station at 1438 on Saturday July 11 to say that a motorboat, Mary, was in trouble off New Brighton bathing pool; she was taking in water.

The...

MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and...

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