LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Story of a Coxswain
WRITTEN with a charm and delicacy comparable to that of Paul Gallico, The Morlo by L. A. Knight (John Murray, 12s. 6d.) is the delightful tale of Davy Tregaren, a life-boat coxswain, who is also a naturalist and farmer, and his affinity with...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Kilmore Station
IN 1846 the Institution was asked to provide a life-boat for Kilmore, County Wexford, and it stationed a boat there on the 28th of July, 1847. She was put under the care of the coastguard.
There is no record of any services...
Category: Articles
The Coxswain and His Crew Put Off to the Rescue on Receipt of a Distress Call Received Through Hm Coastguard
The coxswain and his crew put off to the rescue on receipt of a distress call received through HM Coastguard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lady Sheffield, of Manchester
By the death of Lady Sheffield on 4th January, has passed away, at the age of eighty, one of the oldest and most generous of the Institution's workers in the north of England, and one who will be remembered with gratitude not only for...
Category: Obituaries
Elizabeth and Cicely, of Guernsey
The brig Eliza- beth and Cicely, of Guernsey, ran ashore off this place about one o'clock on the morn- ing of the 16th Jan., and soon began to break up, the crew of 8 men being forced to take refuge in the rigging. When the perilous...
Some Ways of Raising Money
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...
Category: Donations
The Mary Ann & The Margaret Garston
At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 26th February, during a whole S.S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel in the bay. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was at once ordered out, and...