LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

As an excuse for writing rather positively about weather and its premonitory indications, I beg to say that nearly half a century ago I was taught by my father, a farming, gardening, and...

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St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1961, the harbour office informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor vessel Heron had struck the Paternoster Reef and was sinking fast. A moderate south-south-westerly...

Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 8.20 in the morning of the 9th of December, 1948, the Hoylake coast- guard reported a message from the Southport police that a vessel appeared to be aground off Ainsdale beach, and at 9.10 that the...

In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...

Dedication of The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and of Guide Friendship II at Eastney.SIR ALEC ROSE took part in the dedication of both Atlantic 21 The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston on July 29 and of...

THE EARL PERCY M.P., IN THE CHAIR.

1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year :—(vide next page for this list.) 2.—Moved by GEORGE LYALL...