LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stromness, Orkney.—On the morning of the 13th May the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Kili Holm, in the Westray Firth, and that it was doubtful if local boats could establish communication. A moderate S.E. breeze was...

IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...

Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...

Stromness, Orkney.—At about 12.30 P.M. on the 2nd November, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard reported that the Danish schooner Nordstjernen, of Marstal, was dismasted and drifting helplessly, ten miles north of Noup Head, Westray, and about...

Barmouth, Merionethshire.—On the morning of the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off the Dysinni River. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched at...

A TRAVELLING waxwork exhibition has been arranged by Mr. Louis Tussaud, of the famous waxwork show, and Mr.

Tussaud has included in it a life-boat tableau. He has also kindly agreed that the Institution's collecting...

AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...

THE fishwives of Cullercoats have beaten their previous record by col- lecting £203 11s. lOd. at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life- boat. Their previous highest total was £199 in 1931. This was their thirteenth...