LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire, and Hartlepool, Durham.—In the early hours of the 12th March the Whitby motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea. They were the only boats to go out, on account of the bad weather.

With the...

To HENRY G. BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., on hig retirement, after serving for thirty-seven and three-quarter years as coxswain and seven and a quarter years as second coxswain of the Cromer life-boats, a coxswain's certificate of service and an...

Cromer, Norfolk.—Oil the 30th of May, 1953,H.M.S. Cheerful, which was paying an official visit to Cromer, had several guests on board, including the Chairman of the Cromer Urban Dis- trict Council and the life-boat honorary secretary. The...

Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, .Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury Branch.

WE regret to announce the death of Major A. T. Fisher, who founded the Salisbury Branch in 1910, and had been its Honorary Secretary ever...

WHEN in dark night of winter, fierce storms of wind and rain Howl round the cosy homestead, and lash the window pane, When over hill and tree top, we hear the tempest's roar, And hurricanes go sweeping on, from valley to the shore, When...

Carrickfergus, co. ANTRIM. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat station at Carrickfergus, on Belfast Lough, it being considered most important, in view of the great shipping...

Grace Darling and Her Islands.

By Constance Smedley (The Religious Tract Society. Is. 6d. net.) Miss SMEDLEY did a public service two years ago when she wrote Grace Darling and Her Times. It was the first full and accurate...

On the evening of 9th November, 1969, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat was manoeuvred seven times alongside a severely listingJDanish ship, a service for which Coxswain John Bryan has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s bronze medal...