LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood tide and raising a very rough broken sea...

LXVIII. HARWICH.—The Springwett, 45 feet by 11 feet, 12 oars.

HARWICH, standing on the extremity of a tongue of land or narrow peninsula pro- jecting into the estuary of the rivers Stour and Orwell, is said to have risen...

THE following Regulations are Intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is ; stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- I strrirnoif, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew,...

Thursday, 2nd Dec., 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased....

Here is an example of the right spirit in giving to the Life-boat Service.

In response to a request for the renewal of a subscription, the Honorary Secretary at Henley received the following letter, with the subscription...

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for...

PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....