LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To JOHN E. MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving for 17J years as coxswain and 3 moaths as bowman of the Barmouth lifeboat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.

To JOHN C. SNELL, on his retirement,...

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the beat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate transportation to the...

Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1939 During the year life-boats were launched 685 times. Of these launches 200 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...

SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 2nd March the Coxswain received a telegram from Shoebury that a bargehad foundered. As a whole southerly gale was blowing, and a rough sea running, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 proceeded to her...

During a fresh S. gale on 13th January, with a very rough sea, the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., that a ketch, which was found to be the Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a crew of four and bound with maize from London to Great...

A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for...

One of the most outstanding lifeboat rescues of all time was carried out by Ballycotton lifeboat in 1936. The Daunt Rock lightship was torn from her moorings in a February gale. Coxswain Patrick Sliney and the crew of Ballycotton's 51ft...

The Cadgwith life-boat was also launched early on the morning of the 9th February, in a very heavy gale, and proceeded under canvas to the assistance of a large ship which was observed with bowsprit and foremast gone, and in a disabled state...