LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 19TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A fishing vessel had gone aground on Swalecliff Rock, but her crew of two walked ashore, - Rewards, £6 5s..

OCTOBER 6TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A motor schooner had run ashore, but refloated. - Rewards, £2 12s.

Partly permanent paid crew..

NOVEMBER 15TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A motor yacht had drifted ashore with her engine broken down, but her crew of two got ashore unaided.- Rewards, £16 2s. 6d.

What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains

‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...

100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT February 1891 CIVIL SERVICE LIFEBOAT FUND At the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th January last, and presided over by Mr.

Charles G. Turner,...

ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.

H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...

FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...

INTERESTING CEREMONY AT THE MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN.

A VERY interesting ceremony took place on the 6th March last at the Mansion House, Dublin, when the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of that city made (at the request of Miss...