LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...

RAMSGATE.—On the 30th July, signal guns were fired from the Gull light-ship.

The Vulcan steam-tug and Bradford No. 2 Life-boat were manned as quickly as possible,, and proceeded direct for a vessel which was observed ashore...

AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.

Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...

Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...

A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds in the North-West of England was held at Blackpool on 17th and 18th June.

Two hundred and thirty-six delegates attended, from forty-four branches and guilds. The delegates were officially...

GREEK STEAMER AGROUND ON THE NEEDLES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.26 in the morning of January 5th, 1947, the Totland coastguard reported to the life-boat station by telephone that a message had been received from a vessel aground near...

HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.

Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...

the final fruition of this modern policy.

I recall a conversation I had with Cunninghame-Graham in the early days of my lifeboat career, when he said, 'It is not small boats, as at present, stationed in the bights, but...