LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAST Christmas a choir of twelve got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, in Sussex, went carol singing for the Lifeboats.

They wore oilskins and souwesters lent them by the Institution, and...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the night of the 20th of August, 1958, the police reported that two fishermen were overdue and that flames had been seen from Cobo Bay in a north-westerly direction. At 10.45 the life-boat Euphrosyne...

Two dogs TWO CERTIFICATES OF MERIT have been awarded by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to lifeboatmen of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston; one to the crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham who rescued a dog on...

MFV ashore RAMSEY COASTGUARD, Isle of Man, informed the honorary secretary of Port Erin lifeboat station at 0616 on Saturday, June 17 that the 70ft motor fishing vessel Incentive on passagefrom Whitehaven to Kilkeel with a crew of six aboard...

Nov. 1ST. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS. At 10.40 P.M. a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore at North Ronaldshay, sixty miles away. A fresh south-easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.15 P.M. the...

The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...

AN immense work is being accomplished in these days in the way of prevention against loss of life, both by sea and by land; but we may still hope for extensive improvements as experience and science arm our great philanthropic societies with...

ENGLAND.

ELEVEN naming ceremonies of motor life-boats were held during 1939, seven in England, three in Scotland and one in Wales. Three other ceremonies, one in England, and two in Ireland, were cancelled owing to the...