LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ABILITY to aid the shipwrecked is a fairly accurate standard by which to measure a country's civilization. In the South Sea Islands, or Somali Laud, the un- fortunate castaway may struggle through the breakers, only to be clubbed on...

In the second part of his examination of possible yachting predicaments, reproduced here by kind permission of Yachting Monthly, Des Sleightholme asks Coxswains Dave Kennett of Yarmouth, loW, Griff Jones of Porthdirllaen and Ian Johnson of...

Nov. 9TH. - SEAHAM, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 7.50 A.M. a message was received at Seaham from the coastguard that the S.S. Carmarthen Coast, of Liverpool bound, laden, from Kirkcaldy to London had struck a mine several miles to the east...

On the night of the 16th February, the Greek brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide, coal laden, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a south gale. As she made no signals of distress, her dangerous position ^was not seen from the shore until...

The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...

HAYLE, CORNWALL.—While the threemasted schooner Miss Beck, of and from Carnarvon for London with slate, was taking the bar on the 5th February in tow of a steam-tug, the tow-rope parted and the vessel was driven ashore on the beach at the...

NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.

—The steam-trawler John Smart, of Shields, on her return journey from fishing, stranded in Cambois Bay in thick weather early on the morning of the 8th February. In response to her...

THE Blue Book under the above title which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852.

It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long nights, and dark fogs are the fit accompaniments...