LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PRIEST TAKEN TO STORM-BOUND ISLAND Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 30th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a call from the priest of Tory Island, who was stormbound on the mainland, that a woman was...

MARCH 31ST  ST. ABBS , BERWICK - SHIRE. A trawler had been seen flying a distress signal, but she did not need help and hauled down her signal. - Rewards, £9 7s.

THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...

A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to each of the crew of the Lerwick, Shetlands, life-boat for the escort service they provided to three...

OC T . 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no motor...

Relief - Atlantic 75 Rotaract I On a bright November Saturday afternoon nearly 80 Rotaractors with a sprinkling of Rotarians gathered at the Poole Depot Quay for the naming ceremony of a new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, B718.

It...

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.

Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...