LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 2.55 p.m. on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat which had been under observation for some time appeared to be making little headway against...

" THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS STORY." By Noel T. Methley. Sidgwick and Jack- son. 7s. 6d.

In our May issue we briefly noted the publication of this book, which reached us too late for review. As the Life- boat Journal...

Hark! amid the darkness falling, And the thund'ring winds appalling, Comes an urgent signal calling Help from o'er the seas! House, ye heroes, brave and daring, Ye of life and limb unsparing, Oft with death before you staring, Face...

Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...

IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...

It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …

The industrial...

The Royal National Life-boat Institution Rescues Numberless Lives; Incites Really Noble, Laudable Inquiries; Reckons Necessary Lofty Ideas; Rewards News; Laments Indolence; Relieves Nautical Labourers Immediately;...

A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...