LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...

SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...

CULLERCOATS.—Several cobles which had gone out fishing on the 15th October, were overtaken by a gale which sprang up from the S.E., causing the sea to break heavily on the bar. The Life-boat Co- Operator, No. 1, was launched at about 7.30...

An enjoyable experience While I was on holiday near Veryan last summer I enjoyed sailing by dinghy in Gerrans Bay. However on July 18, when I had the outboard motor on the boat, the motor failed and I was driven on to the rocks at Nare Head....

Word came on 7 April that a dog was in trouble off Dynamite quay, St Ives – and that a man was about to try to rescue it. The tide was rushing out of the estuary, making any such attempt by a swimmer extremely dangerous. When the D class...

ARBROATH.—Four fishing-boats having been overtaken by a heavy sea on the 15th January, the Life-boat William Souter was launched at 6 P.M., as the boats would incur considerable danger in crossing the bar, on which the water was breaking...

THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, will again be open this year. Life-boat workers will be doing the Institution a real service if they will bring this to the notice of any friends who are visiting London during the...