LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." WE are not about to write a sermon, although we have commenced with a text; but the sentiment...

How each £100 of the Institution's Income~was obtained in 1934.

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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...

From ist October to 3ist December, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 19 times. On three occasions, described below, they were able to rescue people in difficulties.

Whitstable, Kent. At 5 p.m. on ist...

The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to: Mr. ALEXANDER ALLAN, on his retirement after fifteen years as honorary secretary of the Kirkcudbright station branch.

Mr. HERBERT E. LOYNES, on his...

Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...

NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...

THE new volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping which have just been published record the very interesting fact that during the past year the total tonnage of the world has been increased by 408,540 tons, nearly three times as big an...