LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.

Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...

Jan. 6,1881.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. HENRY SMITH, pilot, of Glou- cester, and 11. to his mate, for saving the owner, and two persons on board the yacht Foam, which was in...

Tenby and Angle, Pembrokeshire.

D USING August the Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats which have been stationed on the coast of Wales at the Stations of Tenby and Angle, both in Pembroke-...

AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...

Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...

DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.

The naval officer-in-charge, Ramsgate, asked that a doctor should be taken to the American steamer James E. Haviland. A strong southwest wind was blowing and the sea was very rough. The motor...

ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...

ON the 2nd September, 1932, two men had gone out from Dooey, Co. Donegal, in a curragh, to lift lobster-pots. The wind increased, and a heavy sea swamped and capsized the curragh.

Their cries for help were heard, and two...