Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, who has already won the Institution's gold and bronze medals, has now won its silver medal for saving an Irish steamer and her crew of 35 men. The steamer's engines had failed and heavy seas...
Category: Articles
— About 4 A..M. on the 26th Jan., at which time it was blowing a gale from S.E., a pilot cutter discovered the wreck of the three-masted schooner No. 4, of j Arundel, on the Abertay Sands ; she there- \ upon bore up to communicate with the j...
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR, In the article headed ' Signals of Distress' in your last quarterly publication of August 1,1 find it stated that, in the first place," It is indispensable that...
Category: Articles
Be- tween 7 and 8 A.M. on the llth May, when the fishing-boats were at sea, the wind began to freshen and the sea made very rapidly. As it was dangerous for the boats to attempt to take the harbour the Life-boat Theophilus Sidney Eclialaz...
FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...
Category: Articles
The new St. Abbs 37-foot Oakley life-boat, Jane Hay, sailed from Osborne's yard, Littlehampton, at 8 a.m. on 3ist October, 1964. Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, was...
Category: Articles
THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
Category: Contents
The Lifeboat Atlantic 75 B-713 OEM Stone I Aisisting Lifeboat Trent class ON-1211 Geoige and Ivy Swanson The Crew gfgnza Medal Helmsman David Parry for his 'outstanding courage.
seamanship and...
Category: Services
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patron— $is f&aet ffitariotw fHajtstg tfjt King.
jittstSerii— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE o» WALKS,...
Category: Advertisement