LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.

At about 9 o'clock...

As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...

SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...

IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...

THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...

THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...

Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.

Mr. Allan was a...

A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...