LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Years Ago The following article appeared in the March, 1937 issue of THE LIFEBOAT: Fifty-two Lives Rescued.

A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.

Early in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer...

ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN instances of medical men serving on the Committee of Management in years gone by, and many occasions when doctors on the coast have given valuable service, there was never a centrally planned policy on medical...

The barque Jacob Rauers, of Gothenburg, whilst bound from that port to Grangemouth with a cargo of spars and pit-props, stranded on the rocks near the " Needle Eye," at Marshall Meadows, on the 29th...

ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...

Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...

The Institution is re-analysing its records to investigate the causes of loss of life at sea. Some interesting facts are emerging.The RNLI exists for one simple reason - to save lives at sea. In the pursuit of that seemingly simple goal it...

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN an article with the above title which appeared in The Lifeboat for February, 1925, I pointed out the reasons why, in material and construction...

IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...