LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT is just eleven years since the service to the Hospital Ship Rohilla, wrecked ofi Whitby on 30th October, 1914. It will be remembered how the Whitby No. 2 Boat, although badly damaged, made two journeys to the wreck, rescuing five women...

By George F. Shee, M.A., ALL who are connected in any way with the Life-boat Service will have read with special pleasure the announcement which was made on 14th February, that the King had decided to make a personal link between the...

In the month of March the Whitburn life-boat was launched to the assistance of the crews of three fish- ing cobles, each with 3 men on board, which were caught in a strong easterly wind, a high surf running on the beach at the time.

WHITBURN.—The William and Charles Life-boat was launched at about 4.30 P.M.

on the 5th October and rescued the crew, consisting of six men, from the schooner Theodor, of Riga, which stranded on Whitburn Stile during a S.E....

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—21st Octo- ber, 1939. A message had been received that twenty-six seamen from a French ship which had been sunk by enemy action were on board the Inner Dowsing Lightship. The life-boat was.

launched...

THE committee of management greatly regret the death in April of their colleague, the Marquess of Ailsa, at the age of ninety-one. Lord Ailsa was not only the oldest, but the senior member.

He joined the committee of manage...

THE Institution has received a gift of £3 13s. Qd. from an acting doctor on board the S.S. Vandyk, of Liverpool.

While she was outward bound on a pleasure cruise the medical officer was compelled to leave the ship at...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Lionel Scott of the Mumbles.

At the age of twenty-nine Coxswain Scott is one of the youngest cox- swains in the Service. He was appoin- ted in 1955 and first joined the Mumbles...