LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Again, on the 12th July, two lads, in a small sailing-boat, were driven out to sea during a strong wind from the S.S.W., and being unable to return, they dropped anchor, and tied a cravat on an oar, as a signal to those, on shore, which...

BALLYWALTER, IRELAND.—On the 13th November, at about 4 A.M., signals of distress were perceived on Skullmartin Reef. The Life-boat Admiral Henry Meynell was promptly manned and proceeded to the reef, where she found the schooner Lady Land,...

On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...

THE life-boat service has benefited by £5 as the result of a vow by two army officers on Salisbury Plain. The}7 bound themselves to "a particular Lenten abstention," and the penalty for failure was to be a cheque for £2...

AN appeal was again made at the beginning of 1934 to the principal golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland to hold competitions in aid of the life- boat service, for which the Institution would present silver and enamel spoons as prizes. As...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 16th January a moderate S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, sleet and rain. A fisherman reported that the local fishing coble Pioneer was at sea, and the No. 1 motor life-boat...

Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—The motor life-boat Langham was launched at 11.22 A.M. on the 22nd May, as information had been received through the coastguard that the yacht Bendilow, of Portsmouth, was in a dangerous position near Sandown pier....