LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat, Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest life-boat in the Institution's fleet.

At five...

AT a final meeting of the committee and representatives of the subscribers to the Mayor of Swansea's 1947 Mumbles Life-boat Disaster Fund, which was held at the Guildhall, Swansea, on the 4th of June, a scheme was approved for the...

Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — During the morning of the 28th August, 1938, a vessel under sail was seen beating up towards Cefn Sidan. A moderate N.

gale was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The vessel was...

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Nov. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

It was eight at night when the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched to the help of a foreign steamer, the Georgios, of Piraeus. The night was very dark. A moderate wind was...

ABOUT 2.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, two boys, aged eight and eleven, who were in difficulties when swimming, began to shout for help.

They were then about 200 yards north- north-east of the Appledore...

STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...