LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A mother grieving for her drowned son is helping the RNLI to raise awareness of water safety

Plamen Petkov had appeared to be like any other visitor to the beach, until he drowned saving the...

TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.

SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...

JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...

AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

She was the...

Two days later—Sunday—a violent northerly gale, with blinding showers of snow and sleet prevailed, and at about 3 P.M. a barque was observed off Skate- raw, displaying signals of distress. The Life-boat William Arthur Milhvard was at...

A CHAKITY competition, in which the Committee of Management have given permission for the Institution's name to be included, is to be started at the beginning of next year by the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk...

Mr. W. J. Oliver, who died on 4th March, had been Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland Branch for twenty-five years, and for nearly fifty years had been actively connected with the work of saving life from shipwreck. When he was appointed in...