LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A grand bottle-breaking event was held at the Vaynol Arms Hotel in Abersoch, when the proceeds from six months hard work by the licensee, Andrew Shaw, were counted.

Long after the bottle had been filled interest in the... - View image in PDF

A TABLET has been placed on the side of the life-boathouse at Walmer, Kent, commemorating the Walmer luggers which were, in the words of the Institution's honorary secretary at Walmer, " the cradle of the life-boat- men " of...

BY the death, on 20th May last, of Mr.

Charles Verrion, of Ramsgate, at the age of 85, passed away the last member of the famous Ramsgate Crew which carried out, just over fifty years ago, one of the most remarkable rescues...

HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...

ABOUT 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 13th of December, 1962, the motor boat Zephyr, with Mr. John Smith the owner, who is a member of the Long- hope life-boat crew, and William Mowat on board, returned to her moorings at North Bay,...

DURING the past year mounted charts showing the life-boat stations round the British Isles, with the signals to be used by vessels in distress, were sent to nearly ninety yacht clubs. It is proposed to continue the distribution of these...

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THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.

They...