LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...

November Meeting.

Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...

In February 1858, the oar-powered Southwold lifeboat capsized in heavy surf. The 15 crew wearing lifebelts were all saved but records show ‘three unfortunate gentlemen who had … neglected to put on lifebelts, lost their lives’. Technology...

THE following account of a disastrous shipwreck which recently occurred near Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, cannot fail to be interesting to all who peruse it. We think it deserving of record on three accounts —1st. As an instance of...

Hammering away...

The RNLI's appeal for autographed items which can be auctioned to raise funds has already attracted an enthusiastic response.

Several hundred autographs have been received at...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.

A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...

Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.

THIS year, for the first time, the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland was won by a pupil of a London school, Alfred Robinson, of Warple Way Mixed School,...

ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.

Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...