LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...

A MONTH 4-STAR HOLIDAY THIS WINTER from just £199 pp 4 MALTA • HB upgrade just £28 weekly • 1st child only £149 until Apr ‘08 . Malta, with its sister islands, sits in the heart of the Mediterranean and is blessed with blue...

Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life

Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...

IN 1938, in response to the Institution's appeals, the Navy contributed £343, the Army, £412, and the Air Force £303. This year the Navy, to which the appeal is made at the beginning of "the year, has contributed...

NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...

The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...

JOHN HUBBARD, of Caister, who died on the 24th February, was the last sur- vivor of the crew of the Caister pulling and sailing life-boat which was driven back on the breakers on Caister beach, when on her way to a ship in distress, in a...

• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...