LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 8.28 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Orient, of Burnmouth, was aground close to the shore three miles north...

The schooner Albion, of Bcaumaris, while at anchor about a mile and a half from the Life-boat station, on the 12th February, during a strong S.S.W. wind, hoisted a signal of disti'ess. The Life-boat Eleanor proceeded to her, and, at the...

On the night of the 15th January, the steam trawler Golden Sceptre, bound for Hull for repairs, grounded on Kettleness Point at 9.20 P.M. Her distress signals were seen, and the Life-boat Hester Rothschild was despatched to her assistance....

LORD HOLDEN, who died on the 6th of July, at the age of nearly fifty-three, and was for a time in the diplomatic service, had been a member of the Committee of Management for three and a half years. He was elected to it at the end of 1947,...

At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...

SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—In thick weather, a strong S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 4th February, a large steamer—the s.s. Benwick, of Newcastle —stranded on the " Runnel Stone" and subsequently became a total wreck. It was soon...

A CONFERENCE of the branches in the London District was held at Southend- on-Sea on the 30th of March. Eighty- one delegates from forty-five branches attended it. The party was welcomed by the Mayor, visited the life-boat house, saw the life...

144 pages Many of the most stirring tales of 'the men who never turn back'— the crews of the R.N.L.I.—arc included from the very beginning of the service to today. So, too, are the stories of rescue and heroics by others including...