LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

some recent publications reviewed EDWARDIAN WORTHING Eventful Era in a Lifeboat Town written and published by Rob Blann at £12.95 ISBN 09516277 1 6 Foreword by RaymondBaxter, RNLl vice president and member of the committee of management...

ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 12.50 P.M.

on the 2nd November Wick coastguard reported that they had received a wireless message from the master of the tug Warrior, of Glasgow—which was towing the ferry steamer Snowdrop, of...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 6th of November, 1955, the Wick coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Reggio, of Grimsby, had gone ashore five miles west of Dunnet Head. She was bumping badly and needed help....

Thursday, 12th November, 1936.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, BT., in the chair.

Resolved that the hearty and respectful thanks of the committee of management be accorded to H.R.H. the Duke of York, K.G., for...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a ship had run ashore two hundredyards east of Beeston Regis. At 7.15 the life-boat Forester's Centenary was launched....

On the 17th November, during a strong gale of wind from the E.N.E., the brig Bessie, of Sunderland, was observed to anchor in a dan- gerous position near this life-boat station, and the City of Worcester life-boat accordingly went out, and...

Honorary Life-Governor The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MRS....