LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Royal National Life-Boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Con- ference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The...

THE history of the Institution during its first century of work has now been completed, and will be published in the early autumn of this year by Messrs.

Hodder & Stoughton, with the title " Britain's Life...

ON the night of 17th/18th March, 1969, the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B.

capsized. The whole of her crew lost their lives. This was the first life-boat disaster involving the loss of all or nearly all of the crew since...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent of a request from the Superintendent of Trinity House, Great Yarmouth, for the life-boat to land the master of the...

Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.

THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...

The late HENRY CORKISH. who for 22 years was coxswain of the Ramsey life-boat, a certificate of service to his daughter.

To WILLIAM TRACEY, on his retirement, after serving for 4 years as coxswain, 10|- years as second...

FIVE Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place in Scotland during the past summer, at Girvan, Port Patrick and Kirkcudbright on the West Coast, and Cromarty and Dunbar on the East Coast. At the first four of these Cere- monies the Duke of...

To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.

SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...