LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1933 more branches held life-boat days than in 1932, more people con- tributed and £l,000 more was collected in this way.

The number of branches holding days was 731, an increase of eighteen. The number of people...

At midnight on the 23rd April, 1859, the Norwegian barque Alecto ran ashore two miles north of Win- terton; her mainmast was soon hanging over her side, and the seas breaking over her.

The Winterton life-boat was quickly...

SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat appeared, the inauguration ceremonies of three new Motor Life-boats have taken place, of the Dunleary, at Kingstown— her splendid voyage from Cowes to Ireland was described by Commander Stopford C....

The following graphic account of a determined and gallant Lifeboat Service rendered on the occasion of a shipwreck which occurred on the Yorkshire Coast a few years since, is abridged from an interesting work, entitled, " Between the...

IN the list of awards to honorary workers in the last number of the journal, Mrs. F. H. Thornton, who received the record of thanks, was given as the "President of the Huyton Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Liverpool." It should...

It has been necessary to hold over the list of awards made to honorary workers at the beginning of the year.

It will be published in the next number..

500 Days raise £40,000.

OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.

This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1937 - 65,320 An Artist's Memories of the Life-boat Service From...