LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.

THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...

About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...

BY the first week in February, we passed the 1,000th registration of members subscribing direct to Life-boat House, and since the Shoreline Scheme was started on 31st October, 1972, we have received over £12,000 from subscriptions and...

Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...

The Gorleston No. 1 Life-' boat Mark Lane was launched at 11.55 P.M. on the 28th October in response to signals of distress from the Corton Light-vessel. When proceeding to her, flares were seen on a drifter near the Sands, and the...

By the death, on 3rd June last, of Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, at the age of fifty-seven, the Institution loses one of its most distinguished Coxswains. He was appointed Bowman in 1911. A year later he became Second Coxswain, and...

For all that a century and a quarter has passed since Grace Darling and her father attained fame, over the years their story has attracted the interest of a succession of authors. Save for two early works, which were almost blatantly fiction...

75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...