The s.s. Taunton, of Liverpool, whilst bound from New- port to Rouen, on the 27th December, with a cargo of stores for the French government, was in danger owing to her anchors not holding. When she was about one mile from Gwythian Beach,...
Two Life-boats, the new Motor Life-boat for Ballycotton and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat recently sent to Llan- dudno, both went out on their first services to the help of old Life-boats.
The new Ballycotton Life-boat,...
Category: Services
At about midnight on 15-16th February the steam trawler Jeanne, of Ostend, struck the Keldar Steel, an outlying reef near Kettleness, while bound home, with a cargo of fish, from the fishing grounds.
She carried a crew of...
As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...
Category: Poetry
THE life of Sir Henry Oliver, most appropriately called A Great Seaman and written by Sir William James (H. F. and G. Witherby, 18,9.), is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes of an adventurous career, mostly taken from his own notes and...
Category: Articles
1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...
Category: Articles
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
OCTOBER 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 1.30 in the morning a message came from the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore that phoenix AX193 - one of the concrete caissons used to build the breakwater of the invasion port on...
MKS. ASTLEY ROBERTS, the president and chairman of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has presented the Institution with a four-sided illu- minated electric clock, to stand on the roof of the old life-boathouse, which is now the...
Category: Articles