LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The bar- quentine Britannia, of Guernsey, whilst bound from London to Hartlepool, stranded on the Cockle Sand on the 4th October. There was a moderate N.W. gale blowing, increasing to a heavy gale, and the sea on the sands was very heavy. A...

Ix 1949 the Life-boat Service set up a new record. Its life-boats went out to the rescue 639 times. That is the largest number there has ever been in time of peace. In time of war it has been exceeded only thrice, in 1939, 1940 and 1941.<...

An RNLI Lifeguard On Exercise. - View image in PDF

12th June. Barge on fire, but crew got fire under control.

—Rewards, £16 7s. 6

A VEKY fine service was performed by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat on the llth April, 1919, when she rescued six pilots from the pilot cutter Day Dream, of Dundee. Just before one in the morning the news was received that a ship had run...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...

Mr. Douglas Newall, a water bailiff employed by the Avon and Dorset River Board, and Major Oliver Kite, a well-known fisherman, tied some specimen dry flies as used on the chalk streams of southern England. The case of flies was auctioned at...

BY the death of Mr. James Hartley Burton on 16th May, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost an outstanding honorary secretary. He became the honorary secretary of the Penmon, Anglesey, station in 1906, and when that station was...