LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Matthew Lethbridge, of St.

Mary's, in the Scilly Isles. He has been an officer of the life-boat for 32 years. He served as second coxswain from 1920 to 1925, and since 1925...

Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...

On the 23rd August, the brigantine Frances Mary, of Drogheda, stranded on Drogheda Bar during a, heavy E. gale, accompanied by a rough sea. The John Rutter Ohorley Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, but only 1 of the crew then came...

"MAKING THE POUNDS GO FURTHER" "Faith, for a clergyman, is an essential ingredient of life. Hut back in /V.S'/ Vi'eiuly and I had to apply it in a more secular situation - whether or not to infest in HPR. In its early...

In connection with the photograph of the codfish collecting box at Whitby, which appeared on page 172 of the October issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, it has been pointed out that the photograph was taken by Mr. A. Greenwood, of York, and that the man...

Prince Charles visits Rock Rock lifeboat station personnel were delighted and honoured to be visited by HRH The Prince of Wales just four days after their new boathouse was opened. Prince Charles had shown much interest in the new lifeboat...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....