LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported...

PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL.—On the 26th March, at about 1 P.M., the schooner British Queen, of Wexford, bound from that port to Porthcawl in ballast, was observed to be in distress. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.W., and there was...

WEXFORD.—The fishing-yawl Liberator, of Wexford, grounded on the N.E. side of the Dogger'Bank, while returning to port from the fishing grounds in a strong N.W. gale and a rough sea on the 5th January. The Life-boat Andrew Pickard...

By the death of Mrs. Lallow, Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at West Cowes, on 8th March, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and enthusiastic honorary workers. Mrs. Lallow had been a Lifeboat worker for...

WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 31st January the s.s. Belle, lightship tender, while returning to Wexford from the Lucifer Shoal Light-vessel, in a moderate breeze, with a moderate sea and thick weather at times, grounded on the E, end of the...

During a, strong W.N.W. gale with heavy sea on the 28th January the schooner Helen Hutcliesou, of Peterhead, at anchor in the Roadstead, showed signals of distress after an unsuccessful attempt by the vessel's crew to land in their own...

GREAT YARMOUTH. — The Life-boat John Surch was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd January, and put on board the s.s. Ardle, of Dundee, some men by whose aid the vessel, which had been stranded on the beach about two months, was got afloat, and...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Moore Horn, of Exmouth, Devon. He was shore-signalman from 1908 until 1919. From 1920 to 1928 he served as second coxswain and since 1928 he has been coxswain. On 15th January, 1938, he won the...