LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...

DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.

TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...

IN presenting to Parliament the Wreck Register and Chart for the year 1873—4, the BOARD OF TRADE observe that it has been found advisable to make up its tables from the 1st July to the 30th June, instead of from the 1st January to the 31st...

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Barra Island Arun class Ann Lewis Fraser Barra Island lies at the southern tip of the Western Isles, and the community of Castle Bay is the home of the lifeboat and also the terminal for the ferry which, with the daily air flight, is the...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1895, THE EIGHT EON.

LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord Privy Seal...

Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...

Greater London.

Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....