LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...

On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...

The lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds flew, Oh, wife ! from the shores they cry,' One more,' With strong, steady hand and true! There are lives to save On the frothing wave— One more for the...

THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding...

AT the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.

CHARLES G-. TURNEB, G.B., Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had been no...

— The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched shortly before 4 A.M. on the 24th December to the assistance of the steamer Envermeu, of London, which stranded on the Goodwin Sands whilst bound to the Tyne in ballast. When the Life...

AT the Conference of Life-boat Workers held at Bristol on June 18th, of which a report appears on page 485, one of the speakers pointed out how much it would interest the workers of inland Branches to see Life-boats afloat, and he asked if...

The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...