LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT models and equipment have been exhibited at the Welsh Industries Fair, in Cardiff, and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's Empire Week Show in Belfast, and the Institution's exhibition of photographs has been shown at...

THE Swedish Life-boat Society has awarded to the Institution its plaque of merit and two diplomas, each of which has this record: Swedish Life-boat Society pre- sents to the Royal National Life-boat Institution its plaque of merit for out-...

Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1989: Miss B. Openshaw, committee member of Penwortham branch for more than 20 years.

JULY 1989: Miss Fletcher, chairman of Farnworth and Kearsley branch from...

IT is with much pleasure that we record that the King of Denmark has gener- ously recognised the courageous, but tragic, service of the Johnshaven Life- boat James Marsh, last December, to the Danish schooner Fredensborg. The service was...

FOUR branches have carried out balloon races with great success this year.

At St. Albans, where the race was being held for the third time, about a thousand balloons were sent off, of which eighty-five were...

AT 6.10 in the evening of Wednesday, April 23rd, the life-boat at The Mumbles vent out in a gale of exceptional severity to the help of the steamer Samtampa, of Middlesbrough, which had been driven ashore on the rocks off Sker Point, eleven...

RELIGIOUS ceremonies associated with the Life-boat Service have been held in recent months in Bolton. Hoylake, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey in the north- west district of England; Bude, Clo- velly, Land's End...

Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 11.15 p.m.

on 23rd October, 1966, information was received that a small motor boat last seen two miles east of Port Ellen during the afternoon had not yet returned to her moorings. At 11.35 the...