LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 21ST. - SHOREHAM HAR-BOUR, SUSSEX. At 5.18 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel off Goring was leaking badly and needed the help of a life-boat. There was no wind and the sea was smooth, but there...

FEBRUARY 20TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 4.55 A.M. the Tara coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore in Knockinelder Bay, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 6 A.M. A light south-easterly wind was blowing, with a...

Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...

Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.

For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...

A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.

Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...

During a westerly gale on the 22nd June, the schooner Tankerton Tower, of Faversham, got into a dangerous position near Formby Point. She was bound at the time from Dublin to Liverpool in ballast, and had five men on board.

THE crash of timbers and the rasp of rock, ; The mocking tongue of Death in frenzy wags The stricken ship—mere plaything of the Beneath its ghostly, ghastly, fleshless lip.

gale- Lies helpless, while the cruel...

MR. JOHN F. LAMB, M.I.E.E., who died on the 24th of March, 1955, was a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution for 36 years.

In the year of his co-option, 1919, he joined the Building Committee, now known...