LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ten-year-old Peter Jensen of Highgate sent £9.07, collected with his splendid guy, to Hornsey branch. The RNLI, he said in his letter, is his favourite charity. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of Andrew Franks.. - View image in PDF

1926 was, in. its weather, a normal year, with severe gales in October and November. During the year there were 269 launches of Life-boats on service, 65 more than in 1925, and 456 lives were rescued from shipwreck, 73 more than in 1925. Of...

BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...

Jan. 9.—Voted the Silver Medal to FREDK. CHARLES HICKS, who by swimming saved, at imminent risk of his own life, the Captain of the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who had been washed on to the Helwether rook after the vessel was...

On the 15th Sep- tember, the screw-steamer, Hettenis, of Dublin, bound from Naples and Lisbon to Dublin, with a general cargo, and having 26 bullocks on deck, grounded on Ark- low Bank, during a strong gale from W. to W.S.W. The Arklow...

List of New Branches.

THE following new Branches have been formed since the list published in The Lifeboat for February, 1927 :— Branch.

Abergavenny . . . . .

Abertillery . . . ....

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

[WE resume our Reports, which bad been unavoidably postponed, of the Services of the Life-boats of the Institution.] TENET, :SOUTH WALES.—On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to...