LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During the afternoon of the 31st December two of the local fishing cobles were at sea, and as a moderate S.E. gale was blowing with a rough sea, it was decided to send out the No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life- boat Forester. She was launched...

ABERSOCH.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 23rd January the Life - boat Oldham waslaunched, signal - rockets having been fired from the direction of St. TudwelFs Island. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from E.N.E., with snow squalls and very cold...

GORLESTON.—Signal-guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Mark Lane put off at 6.35 A.M. on the 7th February, in a rough sea and a strong N. by E. breeze, and found the brigantine Argo, of Marstal, bound from Fowey for...

Mr. H. A. Bryden, who died in September, 1937, at the age of eighty- three, was distinguished as an interna- tional athlete, sportsman, traveller and naturalist, and as the author of many books on these subjects. He came to the Institution...

The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 5th December, as a gale had sprung up from the N.E., and several local fishing boats were at sea.

A heavy sea was running, and heavy rain falling. The life...

On the 25th December the steam trawler George Stroud, of Aberdeen, was wrecked when entering the harbour. The Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance rescued one of the crew, and another was rescued by the Institution's North Pier...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—The motor life-boat J and W put out at 6.20 P.M.

on the 14th January, in a moderate E. wind, with a moderate sea, as the motor fishing boat Greta, of Portpatrick, which should have returned at 3 P...

COLONEL SIR HENRY MCMAHON, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.S.I., who died on the 29th of December, 1949, at the age of 87, had been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment for thirty years, and was ap- pointed a vice-president in 1948. He ...