LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEW BRIGHTON.—On the arrival of the steam ferry boat Thistle from Liverpool on the morning of the 27th January, the master reported that a vessel was ashore on Taylor's Bank. The coxswain of the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...

BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the most distinguished of its honorary workers. In spite of his many...

Torbay, Devon. At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Levermead beach and that a man could be seen in the...

RAMSGATE.—At midnight, on the 12th of February, during a moderate S.E. wind and thick weather, signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Bradford Life-boat put off in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, proceeded to the North Sand...

LYDD AND NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the morning of the 25th November, during a fresh gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea, the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway, bound from New York to Rotterdam, with a cargo of grain, grounded on the outer end of the...

KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—On the 21st of March the cutter Ceres, of Poole, bound to that port from Truro, with barley, which had been hove to owing to a dense fog, had just been got round with her head to the S. when the wind suddenly changed, and...

Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose, died on 16th December last, at the age of sixty-seven. He had been in the service of the Institution for fortyeight years. In 1913 he was appointed Coxswain of the Montrose No. 2 Lifeboat, and then in...

The barque Libnrna of Arendal, whilst bound from Gothenburg to South Africa, stranded off Shoreham about 5 P.M. on the 15th March. There was a S.W. gale blowing at the time, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and whilst the Life-boatmen were...