LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...

THE Ninety-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1922, at 3 P.M., the Right Hon Stanley Baldwin, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, in...

NEWHAVEN.—On the 3rd January last, a dismasted vessel having been seen off the harbour, the Life-boat Michael Henry pro- ceeded out to her. The wind was blowing moderately from W.S.W. and a heavy sea was running. On arriving at the vessel it...

'COME ON, BEN,' and as Bridlington lifeboat prepares to launch on service Police Constable Usher quickly boards as seventh man; 'I'll come with you,' and at Douglas Chief Inspector Robin Corrin (later Deputy Chief...

ROSSLARE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wexford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remaining...

By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sillskapet For Kaidning Af Skeppsbrutne.

[This article, on the Swedish organiza- tion or rescuing life from shipwreck, which Captain Isberg has very kindly written for THE...

Inaugural Ceremonies by H.R.H. Prince George, K.G.

H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boats at Walton-on- the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea on 25th July. These are the fourth and fifth Life-boats which Prince...

LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...