LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coverack, Cornwall.—1st July. A steamer had run aground in a fog, but got off without help.—Rewards, £10. 6s..

THE Institution has just received a pound from one of its regular con- tributors, a post-master, who describes how he made it.

"This is collected by me. I keep a small news agency. There are no returns...

Captain Barton Holmes, a retired US master mariner living in Stolen Island, New York, is a good friend to Aberdeen lifeboat station. In each of the past eight or nine years he has made a model ship and donated it to the branch. His latest... - View image in PDF

At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at Bermuda had ex- pired. The Brighstone Grange life-boat...

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October a messenger arrived on horseback at Moelfre from Eed Wharf, a distance of about four miles, stating that a fishing-boat, with three men on board, was caught in a violent storm, and that the...

Mr. Edmund J. Bluett, who died on llth January last, was Honorary Secre- tary of the Scilly Islands Branch for thirty-six years. He was appointed in May, 1882, and retired in September, 1918. During those thirty-six years the Life-boats...

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most generous...

ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...