To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As so many of the gallant men who are ever ready to man the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION belong to the hardy fish- ing population of our coasts, I have...
Category: Correspondence
The No. 1 Life-boat Lizzie Porter was called out for service on the 30th May to a trawler, which had stranded on the Goldstone Rock and eventually became a total wreck. Information reached Holy Islaad at about noon that a vessel was ashore,...
THE Maud Smith reward in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Coxswain Douglas Kirk- aldie, of Ramsgate, for his courage on the 20th of August, 1952, in...
Category: Awards
WHAT task on earth can man perform More noble or more brave, Than risk his days, and all he hath, Another's life to save ? Yet thanks to Him who rules above, Such men are to be found, 'Mong whom the sturdy Life-boat crews That watch...
Category: Poetry
Wednesday, 31st August, 1938.
PAID £29,787 9s. Sd. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
PYROTECHNICS 0 As a reader of THE LIFE-BOAT I have found many of the articles printed therein of great interest, particularly so the 'article in the January issue, 'Safety at Sea with Pyrotechnics', by Pat Winter Thomas.
Category: Correspondence
VIGILANT CREW IN FAST RESCUE SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on the 10th April, 1972; Coxswain R. W. Wood and Second Coxswain W. V. Burrell of the Aldeburgh life-boat became concerned for the safety of three fellow longshore fishermen who had not yet...
WE have much pleasure in drawing the special attention of our readers to the valuable statistics recently issued by the Board of Trade in their Annual Blue Book, which furnishes abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping...
Category: Articles
From a Boy of Seven.
The following letter, enclosing 3s., from St. Edmunds, West Mersea, near Colchester, was received by the Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston not long after the service to the Georgia, in...
Category: Donations
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
Category: Articles