LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.

In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...

Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...

On the 13th October, during a strong N.E.

gale with a rough sea, signals of distress were seen at 6.30 A.M. from the smack Vivid of Wexford, which had stranded the previous day about three-quarters of a mile W.N.W. of...

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE Queen...

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BARRY YACHT Club donated £1,300 to Barry Dock branch chairman last November, £400 of which came from an RNLI 'levy' which the club includes...

AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...

Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.

November Meeting.

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...

FOE many years the Life-boat Day has been one of the Institution's most successful forms of appeal. It still remains so, in spite of the criticisms made in the Press of this form of appeal on account of the very large number of charities...