LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...

and girls 152. The prize for the best essay has now been won nine times by girls and seven times by boys (a boy and a girl tying for it in 1933).

The Awards.

Alice Chambers will receive a copy of...

ON page 100 there is reproduced a set of nine poster stamps, which repre- sents in brief pictorial form the history Of the Life-boat Service of Great Britain. These stamps are not for use on letters through the post but as a Commemorative...

You should raise your hat to Mrs. Monnie Clements—but if you haven't got one, she will be only too pleased to provide it. A few months ago Mrs.

Clements, secretary of the Shanklin branch of the Royal National Lifeboat...

Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose, died on 16th December last, at the age of sixty-seven. He had been in the service of the Institution for fortyeight years. In 1913 he was appointed Coxswain of the Montrose No. 2 Lifeboat, and then in...

During a thick fog in the early morning of the 22nd June, the s.s. Clara, of London, bound from Malta to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain, collided with another vessel in the vicinity of the Royal Sovereign Light - vessel. She was seriously...

IT is gratifying to be able to report that notwithstanding the great difficulties again experienced during the past year by all the workers for the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE - BOAT INSTITUTION, whether in connection with the Branches or the...

The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 29th January the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that the steamer Edmond Hugo Stinnes, of Hamburg, had sent out a wireless message that she was in distress, with a broken...