LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 18th-19th of May, 1955, the Wells and Sheringham life-boats be- tween them rescued nine men from the S.S. Zor. For a full account of these services, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Coxswain...

A COLLECTOR of flags in Dorset has sent the Institution five gifts, in the course of seven weeks, amounting to £12 14*. He had asked five shipping companies for their house-flags and suggested that, instead of paying them, he should...

A strong N.W.

gale was blowing, and about 1.30 P.M.

on the 6th January, the s.s. Tetlujs (a new sand pump dredger), bound from Glasgow to Sydney, N.S.W., made for Hayle through stress of weather ; after...

IN the next number of The Lifeboat will appear accounts of the naming of the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and of the visit of the Margate Motor Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling of a memorial to...

Mis- Cumberbatch, Honorary Secretary of the Eating Branch, on board the vessel which carried out salvage operations to the SS. " Georgia " off Crorrer, Baling Life-boat Day this year raised £300, as compared with £47 in... - View image in PDF

On 9th January the Hull trawler Dorbie was wrecked, and eight men of the crew were rescued by the Longhope Life-boat. The Stromness Life-boat was also launched.—Rewards : Longhope, £44 5s. 6d ; Stromness, £14 Os. 6d. (A full...

9th July. Two vessels reported in collision. After long search Life-boat found nothing. One vessel had been sunk, with four lives lost, and five had been rescued by the other.—Rewards, £13 7s. 6d..

On the 3rd September and 16th November the John Fielden Life-boat also proceeded out to the bar and remained there until the fishing-cobles, which had been overtaken by stormy weather, were all got safely into harbour..