LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

'HE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have recently extensively circulated the following Queries on lie subject of the Treatment of Apparently Drowned Persons.

As it is thought the cause of science...

UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...

Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 7th of September, 1951, the S.S. Lady of Man reported to the Ramsey coastguard that she had seen a cabin cruiser in distress about thirteen miles south-east of Douglas and that the cruiser...

THE sad story of the acting Selsey coxswain, Douglas Arnell, who was obliged to relinquish his post because of colour blindness, was widely reported in the press earlier this year. It may therefore be helpful to explain the RNLI's...

Minehead's new D class lifeboat, George and Christine, was named during a ceremony held outside the boathouse on 10 October 1999.

The new lifeboat, funded by George Stnbling of Axminster, replaced the previous D class...

One morning last May an army ambulance stuck in the sands at New Brighton, Cheshire, and two other vehicles which went to drag it out also stuck.

The tide was coming in, with" a nasty swell, and the need was so urgent...

THE experiments -with lighthouse illu- minants -which have been in progress at the South Foreland for twelve months, under a Committee of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, were brought to a conclusion in March last, and the Report was...

THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of April, 1950, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

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