LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 9TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. The American steamer Solomon Juneau had been torpedoed and one man had been blown overboard, but the life-boat could not find him. - Rewards, £26 6s..

AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

She was the...

A MARATHON 278-MILE DONKEY TROT FROM ST IVES TO LONDON 'Hey, what's that Freisian donkey doing staked out on your grass?' The cheerful farmer's voice stopped the conversation in the comfortable bar of The White Hart,...

SOUVENIRS OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY John Sunday Lifeboat Jubilee Rose bushes, price 80/ each (carriage and packing 35p per order). Order forms from RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH 5 HZ..

Galway Bay - At 9.15 p.m. on loth July, 1966, the life-boat was requested to convey a seriously ill man to hospital on the mainland. At 10 o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched in a westerly breeze and smooth sea. It...

Tugs aground ST ANNE'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 2020 on Sunday October 18, 1981, that the tug Vernicos Giorgos, with two other tugs in tow, had a rope round her propeller and was...

THANES to the courtesy of Mr. SUMMEE I.

KIMBALI,, the General Superintendent of the United States Government Life-Saving Service, we are enabled to place before onr readers a general outline of the operations of that...

NORTHUMBERLAND. — Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore...