LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The last service rendered at the Caister Life-boat station in 1872 was that on the 10th Dec., by the Boys Life-boat, when she proceeded out, during a gale from E.N.E., to the aid of the brig Pallion, of Sunderland, which had been fouled by...

Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...

Another vessel—the schooner Pride of the West, of Penzance—on the llth March, also went ashore on the North-West Spit, while the wind was blowing strong from the N.E. The life-boat and steamer went to the assistance of the crew, on their...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. — About 11.40 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Duke of Sparta had wire- lessed that she was on the Seven Stones Rocks. A later message said that she was making...

THIS August, for the seventh year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Life-boat Service when the quarterly launch and road exercise of the Cullercoats Life-boat took place.

By collecting this...

HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The schooner Bonne Adele, of Isigny, France, bound to that port from Llanelly, with coal, parted her cables and drove ashore about a quarter of a mile west of Hayle Bar during a strong N. gale and heavy sea, at about 3 P.M....

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on theafternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the schooner Lora, of East Mersea, had had some of her sails carried away and was drifting east-by-south of Clacton Pier. At 3.2...

THE approximate value of vessels of all nation- alities, with their cargoes, lost in all parts of the world during the year 1880, was no less than 68,327,000?., including British property 47,495,000?.

The grand total number...