LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a doctor and bring in from a steamer shipwrecked men whom she...

The inshore lifeboat station at Cowes, Isle of Wight, joined the RNLI fold on 1 July.

The trustees of the town’s independent lifeboat service, which had been serving the community for 19 years, asked the RNLI to take on...

IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary...

The Life-boat Boys was, on the 8th November, successful in rendering assist- ance to tie schooner Lord Jlowick, of Maldon, which, in a heavy sea, was forced ashore on the Cockle Sand. The Boys towed this vessel safely into Yarmouth about 8...

CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—A messenger reported that a schooner had gone on the rocks at the east side of Cemlyn Bay, at about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 28th July, during a fresh E. wind. The crew of the Life-boat Good Shepherd were at once...

The brave people of Moelfre risked their lives as they pulled survivors from the surf.

Picture Tim Thompson.

NOVEMBER 18TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.

The Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Flora and Star of Hope had put to sea at 10 A.M. in fine weather, but by 1.45 PM. the N.W. wind had increased and the sea had become very rough,...

ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...