LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...

ST. IVES, -CORNWALL.—At 12.15 A.M. on the 10th January the Life-boat Exeter was launched, it having been reported that a vessel lying about five miles W. of St. Ives Head was burning flambeaux and blue lights. A strong N. gale was blowing...

CULDAFF, Co. DONEGAL.—On Sunday, the llth February, as a flag of distress was seen flying on Innistrahull Island, efforts were made on the mainland to ascertain by signals what was the matter, but these failed owing to the state of-the...

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—Early on the morning of the 25th January, the barque Thorne, of and from Liverpool, bound for Adelaide with a general cargo, which had been riding out the gale in the bay for two or three days, showed signals of...

IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.

On 29th December of last year the,...

IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...

THE District Organizing Secretary in the Midlands recently visited the school at Alderwasley, in Derbyshire, to present a certificate won by a pupil of the school in this year's essay competition ; it is a remote village of a few hundred...