LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...

On the 5th January, the barque Emma, of Shields, was driven on the Red- car rocks, near the River Tees, on the York- shire coast. The Redcar life-boat was at once manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew. After getting twice alongside...

By Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.founder, Sir William thus a few months THE Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne-sur-Mer was founded in August, 1825, by the joint efforts of two members...

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COXSWAIN HENRY BLOGG, of Cromer, who recently received the Silver Medal of the Institution for the rescue, last October, of thirty lives from the Italian steamer, Monte Nevoso, has received a postcard from San Diego, California, which says :...

'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...

MARCH 18TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.

News had been received through Wick Radio that the Italian steamer Verbania was in distress, seven miles N.E. of Foula, but the life-boat, which was out for fifteen hours, could find nothing. ...

To JOHN B. MCLEAN, on his retirement, after serving for 16J years as coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, gratuity and a retirement allow- ance.

To BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, on his...