LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1931 an appeal was made to the principal golf clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to hold a competition in aid of the Life-boat Service. The Institution offered to present a silver and enamel Spoon as prize (two Spoons being offered if a...

THIS year the Potteries were again very successful in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.

They won five prizes in the inter-school competition in the Midlands. One of these five prizes was presented by...

St. Helier, Jersey.—About nine o'clock on the evening of the 28th of Septem- ber, 1954, it was reported that the harbour motor boat Duchess of Normandy, which had ten people on board, including a party of workmen, was over- due on a...

JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.

There was a thick fog, but the sea was...

Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.

He retired in 1920 on account...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—About 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that he had received warning of a full south- westerly gale, and at 9.45 he stated that several fishing boats were at...

SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...

On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty in number, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl- borough. In appreciation of this service the Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given £22 to the...