LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

There will be no life-boat Christmas card this year, but the life-boat calendar for 1941 is now ready. It has a reproduction in colours of a painting of a war service. The cost u I/-., including the envelope, or 12 for 10/-., and it can be...

The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...

H.R.H. the Princess Elizabeth has sent the Institution £180. It is the balance of her wedding present from, Kimberley, in South Africa, and it came "with her good wishes and with those of the people of Kimberley.".

ON life-boat flag day in Birming- ham an elderly woman went to a collector, and instead of putting copper or silver in the life-boat in return for her flag, gave the collector a little package. When it was opened it was found to contain...

DECEMBER 12TH. - WESTON - SUPER - MARE, SOMERSET. An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and later it was learned that it had crashed on the shore.- Rewards, £12 1s. 6d..

FISHING VESSEL ESCORTED Aberdeen. At 3.42 p.m. on i3th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, close inshore off Belhelvie coastguard look-out, appeared to be broken down. As there was a strong...

JANUARY 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

Just before five in the afternoon the naval authorities at Newhaven telephoned through the coastguard asking for the lifeboat to go out and investigate a rubber dinghy one mile south-east...

By the REV. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D.

THE gale of the 3rd of December last was a destructive hurricane. It would appear, from observations made at Liverpool, that its utmost severity fell on that town and its neighbourhood ;...