LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a thick fog. A moderate N.

breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. News was...

Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.

AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 15th July, the Mayor of Westminster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of the...

Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...

An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.

Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...

JULY 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A message had been received that a yacht was flying distress signals two miles off the Nore Light Vessel, but no yacht in distress could be found.-Rewards, £6 10s..

The late HENRY CORKISH. who for 22 years was coxswain of the Ramsey life-boat, a certificate of service to his daughter.

To WILLIAM TRACEY, on his retirement, after serving for 4 years as coxswain, 10|- years as second...

HSL Make sitting & sleeping easier If you buy 2 of our chairs or beds & they cost more than a 'buy one get one free' offer,,, WE WILL REFUND THE DIFFERENCE* No sales person will call BACK-CARE CHAIRS - nuiny innlck. /OTUN Jj...

A Gallant Service off Folkestone.

ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...