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IN the year 1824 was established, in the City of London, mainly through the benevolent and untiring exertions of the late Sir WM. HILLARY, Bart., Mr. THOMAS WILSON, M.P., and others, the "ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOE THE PRESERVATION...

Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 27th of February, 1949, information was re- ceived that a man a woman and three children had put out in the motor boat Alnora from Landermere Creek for the Walton Yacht...

Pictured are Richard Buckman aboard Sea Dragon, and crew members Peter Hooper, Ivan Greer and helmsman Jerry Norris aboard Blue Peter I.. - View image in PDF

ON the night of 26th October, 1936, the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, was caught in a sudden very severe storm near Jura Sound on the west coast of Scotland. The weather was very thick, with rain showers, and the sea was very...

St. Albans Answers the Challenge.

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave the Southport Branch's record of mayoral help. The Mayor, during his term of office, serves as a member of the Branch Committee, while the...

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Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...