LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WITH THE DEATH of Lord Saltoun, the RNLI has lost one of its most devoted supporters. His main interest was not so much in technical matters such as boats and methods of communication, but in the people who worked for the Institution, its...

HELP FOR SICK MAN At 9 p.m. on the same day the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel La Colina would be arriving off Mounts Bay at 11 o'clock, bringing a sick man on board who needed hospital treatment....

October 1979 Air Marshall Sir Brian E. Baker, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC, who W3S awarded the silver badge in 1965 and honorary life governorship in 1971. Sir Brian became honorary secretary of St Andrews branch in 1952 and had been a strong...

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Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.

His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...

No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...

IN the article in the last number on Mrs. Edith Manby's scarf-helmets for life-boatmen it was stated that over half a hundredweight of wool was used.

This should have been over a quarter of a ton..

ONCE again it becomes our duty to draw the attention of our friends to the sta- tistics published by the Board of Trade, relative to the wrecks occurring on our rock-bound shores. The Register, re- cently laid before the public, furnishes...