LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At about 12.15 P.M., on the 3rd August, the fishing smack Queen, of Douglas, was observed making for the harbour, and in attempting to enter she struck on the bar and stranded opposite the Life-boat House. As a moderate...

The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covenl Garden rendered valuable assistance to the ship Jessomene, of Liverpool, on the 21st January.

The vessel, whilst bound from South Shields to California with a general cargo, got in...

During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.

The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...

.— At 10.40 A.M. on the 4th April it was reported that a boat was being blown out to sea with one man in her. It appeared that he had put off from Amlwch, and when about a mile out his mast was carried away, and having only one oar he was...

The barge Envoy, of Dover, was overtaken by a whole N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea when near the Brake Sands, on the 30th September. The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was despatched to her assistance a few minutes after midnight,...

On the 2nd February it was blowing a whole E.N.E.

gale and a very heavy sea was running in the bay, endangering a large coble which had been left at anchor, and was then in broken water. As it was not safe for the fishermen...

Ix the early afternoon of 27th August last a small steamer. Kendy, of Cardiff, got into difficulties off Porthcawl in Glamorganshire, and foundered. The Crew took to the boat, but it capsized, and, with the men clinging to it, drifted...

THE Institution has awarded an in- scribafl Aneroid Barometer to Mr.

Lionel Hunt, of Barry Dock, Glamor- ganshire, for his gallantry in rescu- ing two men from drowning. Mr.

Lionel Hunt is a Barry Channel...