LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

IN February, 1823, Colonel Sir William Hillary, soldier, author, philanthropist and greatest of Life-boat men, issued his appeal to the nation, advocating the formation...

DROP A PEBBLE into the water, and who knows where the ripples will end? Fifteen years ago Mrs Montague Kavanagh suggested that the Dublin Lifeboat Committee should hold an annual sale of work as a major fundraising effort. In essence it was...

KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK.—On the 13th January the Life-boat Bolton proceeded to the aid of the sloop Ruby, of Goole, which had been overtaken by a snow squall, and had been dismasted while passing through Pakefield Gap. Seeing that her position...

BARMOUTH, NORTH WALES.-—At 10.25 M. on Sunday, the 14th of February, the Jories-GM Life-boat put off to the assistance of the ship Magnolia, of Yarmouth, N.S., bound from Norfolk, Virginia, for Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton, which had...

The Life-boat was also launched at 9.20 P.M. on the 28th November, in response to signals of distress, and proceeded, in tow of a steam-tug, to the assistance of the brig Olga, of Frederickstadt, and put a pilot on board. It was found that...

The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...

On the 13th October, the No. 1 Lifeboat Edward BirTsbeck put off at 6 A.M., during a moderate to strong gale from the N,, and a heavy sea, a vessel having been observed ashore about two miles N.of Winterton. On reaching the vessel she was...

PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....