LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Annual Meetings : Station*.

CLACTON.—On 2Ist February, Dr.

J. Coxhead Cook, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ended 3Qth September, 1924, showed that £200 had been collected...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain GEORGE PERRIN, of Skegness.

He joined the life-boat crew in 1913.

For three years during the war of 1914 to 1918, he served as mate on drifters engaged in...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...

THE following account of the rescue of the crew and passengers of a shipwreck like that of the steam-ship Stanley, off Tynemouth, on the fearful night of the 24th November last, is taken from an admirable and most interesting little volume,...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 8, 9,11 and May 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 22, April 14 (twice), 20, 25, May 5 (twice) and 9 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: May 11 and 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: May 9 Aldeburgh,...

(From The. Times, 18th October, 1889.) AMONG the many risks to which vessels navigating the sea channels near our coasts and the fairways leading to our ports are exposed, that of sunken or floating wrecks has of late years become very...

THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.

On...