LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...

cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...

THE Institution has received the anonymous gift of the caul of a baby born in 1832. The donor sent it under- standing that " sailors prize cauls, as they are supposed to provide immunity from drowning." The caul has been given to...

Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could...

THIS year there will again be a Christ- mas card and pocket calendar for sale.

The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the out- side. Inside are Christmas greetings and a picture in colours...

• Howard Biggs, in his book The Sound of Maroons (Terence Dalton, Suffolk, £5.80) has researched diligently to produce such a fine history of the Kent and Sussex lifeboat stations from 1802 to 1977.

Much more than a...

THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.

The expressions of sympathy...

Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...