LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

Otra readers, and indeed the public in general, are aware of the complete means that exist around the shores of these islands for effecting communication with stranded and wrecked vessels, in the shape of life- boats, and the rocket and...

H.R.H. THE PRINCESS LOUISE, Duchess of Argyll, who died on 3rd December, 1939, at the age of ninety-one, had for many years been personally associated with the work of the Institution. She became president of its Kensington branch in 1914....

WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....

Peter Williams, a Slitting Mill primary school boy, who at the age of 6 was successful in the 'Blue Peter' life-boat poster competition (THE LIFE-BOAT, December, 1969), pictured with his mother, Mrs. Heather Williams (left), when... - View image in PDF

There are other ways, besides saving life from shipwreck, in which the Life- boats occasionally do service. They have taken doctors to sick men on Light- houses, and recently the Tenby Motor Life-boat took bread out to a storm- bound vessel....

The late Coxswain Eric Pengilly of Sennen Cove, awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the sen-ice to Union Crystal.. - View image in PDF