LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cheques totalling £4,000 were presented to three charities at St. Martin's School, Walton, Surrey, in October. This sum was raised at the school fete in July—and was nearly double the amount raised at the late fete three years ago....

During 1975 Dublin branch and ladies' guild achieved the fine result of £24,000. Of this amount £5,874 came from the lifeboat shop run by Mrs Montague Kavanagh and her helpers, and £4,198 was raised in a one-day spring...

WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...

IT is very gratifying to observe that the French Life-boat Society continues steadily to extend its beneficent operations on the broad basis of the system of the English NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the ap- probation of which by our...

'WE would like to give a donation . . .'.

Welcome words to anyone who has a hand in raising money for the R.N.L.I., and we hear them often at the various functions arranged by ladies' guilds, branches and...

• In Small Boat Navigation (Stanley Paul, £2.25), Lt-Commander Pat Hepherd covers a great deal of this wide subject clearly and at times lightheartedly.

To the completely inexperienced reader some of the information...

Oslo is an ideal setting for a gathering of life-boats. The city lies at the head of a long narrow fjord with moderately high land on either side. There is no slum area and the quays are only a few minutes walk from the centre of the town....

What's in a name? I was intrigued by the selection of proposed names put forward as alternatives to Shoreline Members (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer 1987, Page 170).

They mostly showed a certain degree of aptness or humour, but...