LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LITTLE HAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, intelligence was received that a large barque which was lying in St. Bride's Bay was dragging her anchors and was...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...

Surf And Turf A fundraising evening organised by the Campbeltown ladies lifeboat guild was a great success thanks to a fashion show of Douglas Gill's sailing and outdoor clothes and a fascinating talk from Tony Lambert, horticulturist...

RESERVE LIFE-BOAT Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle had broken down in a slight sea and gentle southeasterly wind five miles north of...

WITH the view of diminishing the serious loss of life which takes place every year from fishing-vessels both on the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the North Sea, and other fishing grounds, the Com- mittee of the NATIONAL SEA FISHERIES...

30 years, 250 rescues later Tom Robertson, the honorary secretary of the Queensferry lifeboat station, received a presentation of binoculars and a certificate at the annual general meeting of the RNLI in Scotland, for 30 years'...

A vessel was observed in the offing making direct for Saltburn, at 2 P.M. on the 8th December, and as a tremendous sea was running, and the wind was blowing a gale from the E.N.E., the crew of the Life-boat Charles and Ann were summoned, and...

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.

To the three services to this...