LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

[WE resume our Reports, which bad been unavoidably postponed, of the Services of the Life-boats of the Institution.] TENET, :SOUTH WALES.—On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to...

WE lament to announce the death of the Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, P.O., G.C.B., Paymaster-General and Judge Advocate- General in the late Government, and member for Shoreham from 1859 until the late general election. For some years Sir...

On the 20th February a large schooner was observed making for Liverpool, and she came to anchor about five miles off St.

Anne's. As there was a strong gale blowing from the north-west and a very heavy sea running, a...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1953 78,410 Notes of the Quarter First Shore-boat Award of the Year Two...

NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.

NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

MILLION, CORNWALL.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Mullion Cove, several wrecks, with loss of life, haying recently occurred in the locality.

The boat is 33 feet long, and rows 10 oars double-banked...

" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...