LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By the death on 4th March of Mr.

Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Worthing, a Vice-President of the Institution, the Life-boat Service has lost its oldest and one of its most loyal and distinguished friends. Mr....

DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...

BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—During the night of the 27th April the ketch Bavington, of Newcastle, while on a voyage from Middlesborough to Dundee, was wrecked on the North Steel rocks. A fierce gale, with heavy rain, was blowing from the E.S.E....

— On the 16th November the auxiliary ketch Marie Celine, of Connah's Quay, was bound from Connah's Quay to Dublin with a cargo of bricks. She had a crew of three. Four miles N.W. of Point Lynas all her sails were blown away and her...

At 3.30 P.M. on the 9th October the spritsail barge Electric, of London, stranded on the S.E. part of the Margate Sands; the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was there- fore launched to her assistance. The vessel was found lying in a very...

On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah Jane Turner was...

At 1.30 A.M. on the 14th April, during a whole E. by N. gale, the schooner Emma Louise, anchored in the road- stead, showed distress signals. The crew of the Life-boat Barak Austin were already assembled as the night was exceedingly wild ;...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1884, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, KG., in the Chair, the...