LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOLY ISLAND.—On the 29th April, 1867, j the Grace Darling life-boat went off and assisted safely into harbour two fishing- smacks, which were observed in distress during very stormy weather. Had it not! been for the services of the life-boat...

HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 15th February, during an E.N.E. wind, a high sea, and heavy rain, the ketch Lizzie, of and from Yarmouth for Sunderland •with a cargo of flour and iron, in making for Hartlepool for shelter, struck on the...

Laurence Gilding is to be warmly congratulated on successfully carrying out the tasks he set himself in his new work The Book of Sea Rescue (Frederick Warne, los. 6d.).

He describes the work of ±e life-boat service, of...

When wild winds howl along the deep, And bid the ocean mountains rise To thunder on White Albion's steep The vengeance of her native skies, What cheers the storm-tossed mariners, Wrecked on her rock-bound shore, And nerves their hearts...

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MAY 12TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.

At 7.15 in the morning a doctor of Castlebay telephoned to the life-boat honorary secretary that he had received a telephone message from Vatersay post office that an R.A.F. Sunderland...

SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.

At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...

MA 1 11 The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...