LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The local fishing cobles Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy put to sea at 7 A.M. to haul lines which had been shot overnight.

The weather was fair. By 11 A.M. a north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...

The late HENRY CORKISH. who for 22 years was coxswain of the Ramsey life-boat, a certificate of service to his daughter.

To WILLIAM TRACEY, on his retirement, after serving for 4 years as coxswain, 10|- years as second...

To MICHAEL F. HARDY, on his retirement, after serving for 27 years as coxswain and 4f years as second coxswain of the Eastbourne life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.

To...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...

Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...

Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...

SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the hundredth anniversary of the rescue by Grace Darling and her father William Darling, of the Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the nine survivors of the Dundee steamer Forfarshire. The Institution has...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...