LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FORMER R.N.L.I. life-boats can be converted into reliable pleasure craft, as many amateur sailors have dis- covered. Demand is keen for life-boats which are no longer required for the Institution's service and a list is kept of...

SEPTEMBER. 20TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 5.5 in the afternoon Lloyd’s agent asked, through the coastguard, if the life-boat could take out food to the S.S.

Brightside, of Dundee. A south-south-west breeze...

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MAY 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 5.15 A.M. a message was received from Gunfleet Lighthouse through the coastguard that a vessel had gone aground on the Gunfleet Sands. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The...

Jan. 1.—JOHN ROWNAN, of Knalton, Co. Wa- terford, on the occasion' of the wreck of the barque Gwmissa, at Knalton Cove, afforded shel- ter to 3 of the crew who had got ashore, and af- terwards assisted to save 6 others of- the crew, all...

Diana has a sense of humour. As we pull onto her drive she’s standing on the threshold of her Hampshire home laughing at our attempts to park. ‘Mind my rockery,’ she jokes, indicating she doesn’t give two hoots about her...

IT does not sound possible, but it i The following is a list of the cost of the is a fact that by making a large gift! different types of Life-boat and of these to the Institution during his life other parts of the equipment of the wealthy...

IN MEMORIAM CAISTER LIFE-BOAT DISASTER (14th November, 1901).

"The Caister men never turn back." (As reported at the Inquest, 15th November.)(The old Coxswain speaks)— WHAT is this we have done ? Why, our duty,...