LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Life-Boat Saturday Fund workers have been much handicapped in their collecting by the serious and apparently increasing depression in trade which has of late so extensively prevailed and which is still with us. To make matters worse...

On the morning of the 5th October the steam trawler Ocean Prince, of Aber- deen, outward bound from Aberdeen, was making for Stromness Harbour with damaged boiler, when she ran aground on the Point of Ness, near Stromness. The vessel and...

On the night of the 4th December the steamer Con- stance, of Leith, ran ashore on the north side of the entrance to the River Southesk. She was bound, with a crew of five and a cargo of coal, from Methil to Montrose. Scurdyness lighthouse...

Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...

Dr Peter Davy of Hastings, who was awarded a silver medal for his service to injured seamen aboard the Argentinian warship Candida de Lasala on December 23, 1974, has been presented with a gold medal by the Argentinian Navy. He was also...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: SEPTEMBER 1994 John Jenkins, former coxswain of Dun Laoghaire from 1951 to 1966.

Mrs Vera Buckley, souvenir secretary of Marsden ladies' guild since 1986. She served as...

By advices from Newfoundland, Nov. 14, it appears that the brig Emma, Captain WHITE, 80 days from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, was lost about midnight "on Saturday last, at Seal Cove, a small opening three miles north of Flat Hock,...

The rule of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT IN- STITUTION for the distribution of Salvage payments to the Life-boat men when they have saved vessels with their crews on board, having been at some places misunderstood, the Committee refer the several...