LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...

Twenty Scottish fishermen from Argyllshire, Wigtownshire and Arran have returned as gifts to the Institution nearly £30 which they had received from it for going out to the help of crashed aeroplanes. Ten of the men had gone to the...

SEPTEMBER 30TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

At 4.19 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane - probably German - was down in the sea to the S.W. of Selsey Bill. A N.E.

breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea....

Safe as houses (above) - Brighton's unique 'floating home' which houses the station's Atlantic 75 lifeboat. - View image in PDF

Thelma Glossop.. - View image in PDF

THE following is a fairly complete list of the Life-boat Days which have already been arranged for the summer.

The dates, however, are subject to alteration. This list does not include a large number of places where days...

Jan. 6.—Voted 37. to 6 men of Ballyetherland, Co. Donegal, for saving 6 other men whose boat had been destroyed by a whale off St. John's Point, on the 3rd November.

Also 31. to 5 men for rescuing 2 others from a...

On the evening of the 5th September, a Spanish steamer, when entering Blyth, collided with the s.s. Pena Cabarga, of Saiitancler, which was outward bound with a cargo of iron ore. The latter vessel nevertheless proceeded, but after getting a...

DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...