LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following letter, written by Mrs.

Eileen I. McCormick of 5 Craighillgrove, Clarkston, Glasgow, was published by the Scottish Sunday Express on the 31st of May, 1959, and is reproduced by kind permission of the editor:...

WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....

GALLANT hearts are pulling— Pulling might and main, Through the boiling breakers, Through the blinding rain; Anxious eyes are watching— Watching from the shore, Fiercely blows the tempest, Loud the ocean's roar.

Gallant...

THE portrait on the cover is a repro- duction of a painting by Claire Leonard, which was exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and which Mrs.

Leonard has kindly presented to the Royal National Life-boat...

The figure which stands on the grave of the 17 Rye Life-boatmen who lost their lives on service on 15th November. 1928. The memorial is the work of Mr. J. Wedgwood, A.R.C.A.. - View image in PDF

John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...

MARCH 26TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.

At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported that the American steamer George Vickers, of Baltimore, was asking for a boat to land two of her crew, who were seriously ill. As no...

IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...