LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 22ND. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.

A steamer had anchored as her boiler was giving trouble, but she was able to repair it and went on her way. - Rewards, £6 19s..

AUGUST 2ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

An object which looked like a small boat had been reported, but it was found to be a large black buoy. - Rewards, £6 9s. 6d..

AUGUST 28TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

It had been reported that an airman was descending by parachute eight miles N.E. of Dungeness, but he landed near the beach and was able to swim ashore, although his hands had been badly...

A gift of two pounds has come from the recreation club of a motor works.

It was raised by the sale of a model of the Prime Minister and — an onion..

FOR the fifth year running the Institution has received a gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbered 494, or £1 Os. 7d.

A gift of 500 farthings, or 10s. 5d., which took two years to collect, has been...

DECEMBER 23RD. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

Lights had been reported flashing on the water and it was thought that an aeroplane might be down, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £23 0s. 6d..

No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...

IN each succeeding Number of this Journal, it has been our painful duty to record the disasters which day by day have occurred to shipping; and our Wreck Register shows that, on an average of the whole year, about two wrecks a day take place...