LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...

SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals, struck in 1825, had the head of George IV. Although, on his accession to the throne in...

VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.

Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.

Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...

ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.

A small...

LlEUTENA'NT-COLONEL CLEMENT RlCH- ARD SATTERTHWAITE, O.B.E., late of the Royal Engineers, who was deputy secretary of the Institution from 1925 to 1931, and secretary from 1931 to 1946, died in his sleep on the 5th of May, 1953. He was...

ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

Ex-Coxswain...

WHAT member is there of any Christian community who has not meditated, with feelings of reverential and grateful emotion, on the miraculous restoration to life of LAZARUS after he had been dead four days ? Who is there that has not pictured...

IT was only in March last that H.K.H.

The PRINCE of WALES very graciously accepted the post of President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in succession to the late lamented DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, and at once...