LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 24th. August, the Ramsgate station bad to be closed. Ramsgate was bombed from the air that day, and the whole life-boat crew of nine took shelter in a cellar near the harbour. A bomb burst just outside, and six of the nine were wounded....

PORT ERROLL, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th July a dense fog, which had prevailed about eight hours, lifted and disclosed a vessel close in shore at Whinnyfold, South of Crnden Scars, and apparently on the...

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Grace Darling and Her Islands.

By Constance Smedley (The Religious Tract Society. Is. 6d. net.) Miss SMEDLEY did a public service two years ago when she wrote Grace Darling and Her Times. It was the first full and accurate...

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Are you sifting comfortably? Back pain has now officially reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Sixty percent of adults annually suffer problems, with thirty per cent becoming chronic sufferers. Our backs are vulnerable. Poor posture in...

WEXFORD, IRELAND.—The No. 1 (large) Life-boat, placed at Wexford about four- teen years since, having become unfit for further service, it was replaced by the Institution in November, 1871—a very fine boat, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide,...

MAY 12TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Kilmichael Point look-out that the S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool, had gone ashore on the mainland south of Pass Head, while bound laden with coal...