LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

One of the worst gales that had been experienced for some years blew off Anglesey on the 8th January, and at 8.40 A.M. the ketch Margaret Elizabeth of Beaumaris stranded near Moelfre.

The Life-boat Star of Hope was promptly...

The Clacton Life- boat was launched at 12.20 P.M. on 13th November to a barge which was ashore on the West Gunfleet Sands.

The vessel was the barge Jumbo, of London, bound from Sheerness to Ipswich with a cargo of cement....

Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.

Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.

From 1890 to 1901 he...

The Motor Life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 8.20 P.M. on 15th April, as the Coastguard had reported that the Nore Lightvessel was firing distress signals. A strong N.E. wind was blowing with a heavy sea. The...

IN the early morning of 27th July a number of fishing boats went out from Moelfre, Anglesey. A gale sprang up and all the boats returned but one.

It was a sailing boat with only one man on board, Captain Owen Jones. The...

GOURDON AND JOHNSHAVEN. — Several fishing-boats which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 4th March were overtaken by gale from the S.S.E., and as the sea became very heavy considerable anxiety was felt for...

On the morning of the 7th June, daring foggy weather, an intimation was received that a steamer had stranded on the eastern side of Carmel Point. The Cemlyu Lifeboat B. J. Nicholson was launched at 10 o'clock, and found that the vessel...

When your safety depends on an engine make sure it gets a Champion start! Nowhere is a spark plug so important to you as in your marine engine. Lives can depend upon its unfailing efficiency. That's why it makes good sense to fit...