LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

The Dutch tanker Liseta had been torpedoed, but the survivors of her crew were picked up by an escort vessel. A boat from the American steamer Ranci Vigo was found broken down, and was towed...

To the Coxswain and Crew of the Aith Hope Life-boat Samyntas Stannak, I respectfully dedicate these simple verses for their noble work on the iight of the 31st October. It 98, in connection with the disabled steamer Manchester City, during a...

NEWHAVEN. — The Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 4 P.M. on the 5th July, and proceeded to the assistance of two fishing luggers, the Louisa and Beauty, of Brighton, each carrying a crew of three men, which were about sixteen miles out...

Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-boat.

ON 31st August, H.R.H. The Duchess of York named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Arbroath (Angus).

This Life-boat, which has replaced a Pulling and...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morn- ing of the 21st of February, 1955, it was thought that the sailing barges May. of Ipswich, and Portlight, of Harwich, each with a crew of two, were in a dangerous position because of the bad weather. They...

SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WALMER, KENT.

At 12.30 in the afternoon the sailing barge Monarch, of Rochester, hoisted a distress signal. She had anchored in the Downs, but was dragging towards a submerged wreck. A moderate south-south...

Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men savedThe joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal and also the Thanks of the Institution...

IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.

This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...