LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 8th September the coxswain, when going out fishing, found a small yacht, the Jersey, of Poole, with four people on board, at anchor off Sandgate. Her skipper asked to be towed to Folkestone, but owing to the state of the tide this was...

THE portrait on the cover is of Major-General the Right Hon. the Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Major-General Seely). Lord Mottistone was chosen coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight, life-boat last year by his fellow members...

CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—The full-rigged ship, Wandsbek, of Hamburg, struck on the Dales rocks at the Lizard Point, on the 26th May. Bookets were fired fromthe signal station, the Life-boat Minnit Moon wai launched at 4.5 P.M. in response to them...

CARMARTHEN BAY.—A private yacht, the Berwick, of Ferryside, with five persons on board, left Ferryside at 8 A.M.

on the 24th January, and proceeded down the river on a shooting excursion, intending to return with the tide....

HARWICH.—At 6 P.M. on the 25th April, it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the Cork Sand. The Life-boat Springwell was immediately launched, and arrived at the Sand at about 8 P.M. The stranded vessel proved to be the Henrietta, of...

A WORKOUT on an assault course was one of the services offered in an Auction of Promises organised by Bangor branch. Others included advice on gardening, French language lessons and even flying lessons.

The event realised...

THE portrait on the cover is of ex- Coxswain William Henry Jones, of New Brighton, Cheshire. He was second coxswain from 1921 to 1932 and coxswain from 1932 until the end of 1938, when he retired, on account of age, vith a pension and a...

Thursday, April 14th, 1932.

Sir GODFKEY BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the death of Sir William Priestley, President of the Bradford Branch, and a Vice- President of the Institution since 1926, and...