LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Committee of Management have had before them the question of Sunday concerts and other Sunday entertain- ments ; and it has been represented to them that support for the Life-boat Cause may be made an excuse for the promotion of Sunday...

This service to the Hamburg was quickly followed by a service to another German sailing ship, also of Hamburg, the four-masted pole-rigged ship Paul, This service took place the following day Jon the Welsh coast. The ship, which was on her...

SEPT. l5TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7.20 P . M . the coastguards telephoned that four boats were adrift near the Shambles Lightship with the crew of a Belgian steamer on board. The weather was fine. The motor life-boat...

While Coxswain John Swan was on the beach on the 21st October, he observed the fishing- smack Emanuel, of Lowestoft, ground on the N.E. part of the Newcome Sands, while outward bound to fish, owing to the wind falling away and the tide...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Coast Life-saving Service at Skerries telephoned that two boys were stranded on an uninhabited island off Skerries.

At 7.50 the life-boat George...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 6th August the yacht Mona, of Heswall, bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of three, was seen to be riding at anchor in a dangerous position about a mile out of Llandudno bay. A strong...

Early on the following day the brig Hazard, of Grimstead, bound to that port from Dover, in ballast, showed signals of distress in the offing. She appeared to be trying to work off the land, but could not do so, owing to the heavy wind and...

JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...