LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR the seventh year running the Institution has received from a lady in Hampstead a gift of all the halfpennies she had collected during the year— 370.

, It has also received a three months' collection of halfpennies...

Would you ask people to risk their lives for an old set of spark plugs? Last year our lifeboat crews answered 2,608 distress calls.

In some cases they risked their lives to rescue people from pleasure craft that had broken...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 24th of April, 1952, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...

Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...

WORKINGTON.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th December, the Life-boat Dodo was launched, signals of distress having been shown by the s.s. Lady Eglington, of and from Cardiff for Workington, with a cargo of coke, which had stranded on the north shore,...

The fishing-boats put to sea in the early morning of the 21st April, but as there was a strong N.N.E. breeze and a heavy sea, the majority of them con- sidered it advisable to return, and did so. At about 10 A.M. two of the boats were...

Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 18th February the local fishing fleet put to sea, but the weather grew bad and all but four boats returned.

At 10 A.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched, to...

THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.

They...