LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the year 1857 the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, as will be remembered by its supporters, appealed to the medical profession in this country and, through foreign ambassadors, to the public medical authorities of several other countries,...

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...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—9th October, 1938. The Norwegian steamer Dixie was in trouble through the failure of her engine off the Antrim coast, but a breakdown in communications prevented the news reaching the Donaghadee life-boat station....

Holyhead, Anglesey. — 24th October, 1937. A distress message had been received from the Finnish steamer Axel, which was on fire. She had, however, given a wrong bearing. She was not off Holyhead, but off the Dutch coast. Her crew were...

AFTER the general election in February, the ballot box from the island of Colonsay, off the west coast of Scotland, was brought to the mainland by the Islay life-boat. The cost was paid by the returning officer..

Nov. 8TH. - ARBROATH. ANGUS. It was reported that a man had been drowned off that part of the coast known as Mariners' Grave, but the life-boat could find nothing.

- Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..

SEPTEMBER 26TH. - RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, KENT. A Halifax aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but it had come down on the Belgian coast.- Rewards : Ramsgate, £12 3s. 6d. ; Margate, £17 3s. 6d..

By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...