LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Clacton - on - Sea and Walton - on - the- Naze, Essex. — During a moderate northerly gale on the 17th January, a wireless message was received stating that a trawler was ashore on the Barrow Sand. This message was con- veyed both to Clacton...

A Kenny Ball Jazz Concert organised by Ilkley branch in aid of the Grace Darling Appeal was a sell-out, and raised almost £3,000 in conjunction with a Yorkshire Post appeal linked to the event. Although Kenny Ball has played at other... - View image in PDF

(Above) A long service for Donaghadee lifeboat: On July 17, 1956, MV Douglas, of Bergen, went ashore at the Maidens on an ebbing tide. Sir Samuel Kelly, slipping her moorings at 0830, found her hard and fast on the rocks, holed and taking... - View image in PDF

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...

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.

PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.

THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fourteenth time. The number of schools taking part was 2,501, an in- crease on last year of 294.

Of this...

THE subject chosen for the seventh Life-boat Essay Competition was " How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between. Nations " A number of schools have written that they have found the subject rather too difficult...