LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...

BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...

BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....

THURSDAY, 9th January, 1896.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., Y.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

THE Institution has now entered on the hundredth year of its existence. Its first century will actually be completed on 4th March, 1924. On that day, in 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, with the Archbishop of Canterbury...

Thursday, 4th April, 1861. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R S., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meetings, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...

LIFEBOAT AREA No.10 Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on...