LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.IT will be remembered that at the Inter- Comnational Life-boat Conference, held in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in which representatives of nine nations took part, a resolution was...

To organise a massive cheese and wine evening with more than 200 guests is no mean achievement when you are over eighty, confined to a wheel-chair and reliant on the telephone for making all arrangements. Nevertheless, the irrepressible Mrs...

This service to the Hamburg was quickly followed by a service to another German sailing ship, also of Hamburg, the four-masted pole-rigged ship Paul, This service took place the following day Jon the Welsh coast. The ship, which was on her...

Stromness, Orkneys. At 10.55 on the night of the 19th of May, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that four red flares had been seen three miles off Hoy. At 11.20 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was launched in a...

ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.

The Motor Life-boat was launched...

On the evening of the 12th May the weather came on thick, whilst a very heavy sea was running. Just before the fog came on the -coble Jane Douglas, of Beadnell, was observed between North Sunderland Point and Beadnell. About 7 P.M., as the...

The Life-boat B. Wood, stationed at this place, went out on the 6th Feb., to rescue the crew and some fishermen who were on board the Nor- wegian ship Martha, which had stranded three days previously off Hornsea. The men were engaged...

A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.

During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...