LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(From Country Life.) THERE was a sound of men's voices singing, calls and cries, laughter and the ringing of a bell; everyone went to the windows. Through the new green leaves one could see in the road a little group of men and girls...

ON the evening of Christmas Day the Life-boat at St. Ives was launched in response to signals from the Godrevy Lighthouse. The Boat was launched over the soft sand with considerable difficulty, some of the seventy-five launchers going into...

TWO YACHTS RESCUED St. Ive», Cornwall.—At 3.27 in the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been in the neighbourhood of Cape Cornwall since early morning, had last been seen at 12.20...

Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 1st of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Sethon, of Fleet- wood, was ashore on the Black Rocks in Islay Sound. The life-boat Char- lotte Elizabeth put out...

Lifeboat Man £73 eiqht 91/2" CHARACTERS OF THE SEA1 from Royal Doulton Govier's of Sidmouth are pleased to offer you this opportunitj of acquiring Royal Doulton's "Characters of the Sea" and at the same time make...

MARCH 29TH . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 3.50 in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat was ashore on the Burbo Bank and that seas were washing over her. Two men and a boy were on board. A strong west-southwest,...

A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.

For a cry came over the wailing sands,...

IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...