LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE beneficial results of life-boats and the mortar and rocket apparatus in saving life from shipwreck cannot be overrated; and the following account of their services to shipwrecked crews on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past...

Stromness, Orkney.—At 11.80 P.M. On the 2nd July the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Wick wireless station had received news of a trawler ashore on North Ronaldshay. There was a thick fog at the time, with a moderate S.E. wind and...

Mr. Thomas Orrell Gray, O.B.E., J.P., who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1935, died on the 7th May, 1961. He had served on the Finance, General Pur- poses, and Establishment Committees of the Institution, became...

Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.10 on the night of the 6th of May, 1951, a resident of Newport Hemsby telephoned that a ship was ashore off Newport Hemsby.

So at 10.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a choppy sea, with a...

In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany...

DECEMBER 22ND. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 4.45 in the morning the Bangor coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Luke’s Point, Ballyholme. A squally north-westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and rain. The...

The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.

COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...

Selsey, Sussex. At 10.20 on the morn- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had burnt flares about a mile south-east of Selsey. A strong west- south-westerly wind was blowing, and the sea...