LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...

VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.

Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.

Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...

Minehead: The Royal Corps of Transport is taking an Atlantic 21 into service on a target range off the Hebrides. Last December a detachment of men was sent to Minehead for exercises in launching and recovery with ILB crew members; it is one...

THE Italian Government lias recog- nised the gallantry of the Life-boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and of the others who took part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian steamer Iscibo on 27th October, 1927, by the award of...

By Rear-Admiral FITZ-ROY, F.R.S.

KNOWING these circumstances, and having accurate statistical observations of these various currents, at selected outlying stations, showing pressure (or tension), temperature, and relative...

1st April. A small rowing boat was in difficulties, but was safely beached at Seaford.— Rewards, £5 16s..

AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.

It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...