LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...

BUDE, CORNWALL.—On the 2nd May the smack Boconnoc, of Padstow, in attempting to proceed to sea, the wind being very light and there being a considerable ground sea, drifted to the north side of the entrance to the harbour. The master, seeing...

OAIBTEB AND WIHTEBTON NORFOLK,— The Oaister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden put off on the 19th September and remained by the stranded steamer Jsis, of Newcastle, as the vessel had a large number of men on board who were discharging the cargo....

WICKLOW.—The Bolert T. Garden Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 1st November, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Samuel Dixon, of "Wexford, bound from Llanelly for Wexford with a cargo of coal, which had shown a...

MRS. BERTHA WADSWORTH, of Hamp- stead Garden Suburb, London, who died on llth August at the age of 77, had been a subscriber to the Institution for twenty years. By her express wish no flowers were sent to the funeral, and friends were asked...

August Meirig Glyn Davies MBE. ex Llandudno lifeboat coxswain. Meirig first joined the crew as second coxswain in 1964, a position he held until 1970. He was an ILB crew member between 1966 and 1985, emergency mechanic between 1970 and 1982....

The CHAIRMAN : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, ladies and gentlemen, to-day is the hundredth birthday of our Life-boat Service.

That is the historic event which we have met here to celebrate.

It is, and...

By the death on 16th May, at the age of eighty, of Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a vice-president of the Institution, the committee of manage- ment have lost one of their most valued and active members. After a dis- tinguished career,...