LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR the past four years no Life-boatman has lost his life at sea. When it is remembered that in that time 1,507 lives have been rescued from shipwreck, and that altogether, on service and exer- cise, between 40,000 and 50,000 men were afloat...

THE following account of how visitors from Bolton contributed to the funds of the Fleetwood Branch, appeared in the Bolton Journal and Guardian on 12th July.

" A number of Boltonians on holiday at Fleetwood last week...

A S.S.E.

gale suddenly arose on the 26th May and a nasty broken sea got up very quickly. At about 2 P.M. it was seen that a number of yawls belonging to Crail, which had been working lobster creels, were in difficulties on...

The iron motor vessel Innistrahull, of Glasgow, was wrecked immediately behind the break- water of Girvan Harbour during a west by north gale and very heavy sea on the 15th December. On receipt of informa tion of the casualty the Second Cox-...

POOLE.—On the 23rd February two vessels, the barquentine Albert T. Young and the Hildred, both belonging to Faversham, and laden with coal, stranded on the back of the Hook Sands, in a fresh S.E. wind and a rough sea. The Honorary Secretary...

A NEW division of the St. John Ambu- lance Brigade has been formed at Brixham, where it will work in conjunc- tion with the Torbay life-boat, turning out whenever the life-boat receives a call, and standing by to give first aid to any among...

Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.

He retired in 1920 on account...

Deaths In the past few months a number of lifeboatmen well known on the coast have passed away.

Ex-Coxswain Harold J. Hayles, B.E.M., who retired from the Yarmouth, I.o.W., life-boat in September, 1971, died in...