LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COVERACK, CORNWALL.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Coverack, where there is an active body of fisher- men, with a view to rendering assist- ance in case of wrecks on the Manacle Rocks, not far from...

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Present.

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, was present at the Plaza Theatre, on 29th November, at a gala performance, in aid of the life- boat service, at which the...

At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate assist- ance. The vessel was drifting before...

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, rescued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on the...

NEWQUAY CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the 1st January 1880 the Nelson Life-boat put off to the aid of the barque Pacific, of Swansea, which was in a dangerous position near the shoals in the bay during a1 fresh W. gale and hazy weather. One of...

a r o u n d and about t h e RNLI Commissioned to choose the winners! Winners of the RNLI's 53rd national lottery were drawn on 30 April by Robin Guthrie, Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.

Mr Guthrie, who...

IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...

Expenditure.

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32,778 19 11 100 12 5 13,513 11 9 406 1 6 10,707 17 3,321 13 459 17 245 10 61,534 3 8 New Life-boats for the following stations :—On...