LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...

FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.

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Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...

EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat on this Station has been exchanged for a new boat, provided by some friends of the Institution at Manchester, through J. F.

MILNE, Esq. At their request it is named the William and Mary. It is 34...

WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...

SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 8th April, during a N. wind, squally weather and a very rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the sloop Watson, of Goole,was at about 5.15 P.M. The Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was at once got ready for...

THE fifth Christmas party given by the Staff at the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, to poor children of the district, took place on the 22nd December last at the Poplar Town Hall. Over 150 children were...