LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...

JANUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.6 A.M. a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that the twin-screw steamer City of Marseilles, of Glasgow, of 8,300 tons, bound from Calcutta to Dundee, had been mined off the Fairway...

At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...

The Greater London Shield.

AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 13th July, the Challenge Shield for Greater London and the individual prizes won by the schools of Greater London in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year...

FOLLOWING on the Conferences of Hcnorary Secretaries already held at Ijlargate in the South-East of England, at Scarborough and Manchester in the North of England, and in London, a Conference of Honorary Secretaries and workers in South...

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 19th March, the weather being fine and clear, and the wind moderate, the ship County of Ayr, of Glasgow, bound from Glasgow to Batavia, stranded on the Jack>s Hole- a Part of the Arklow Banks. whlch...

The steamer Hermiston, of Glasgow, whilst bound from Antwerp to Shields in ballast, stranded on the north cheek of Robin Hood's Bay on the 19th May.

There was a dense fog at the time, with a light breeze and moderate...

During a heavy W.N.W. gale, which was experi- enced on the Lancashire coast on the 11 th December, the Life-boats were called out to the assistance of the steamer Hebe, of Bergen, bound from Norway to Preston with a cargo of wood pulp. The...