LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the 25th of October last The Times published for the first time a remarkable alteration in its usual daily chart of the barometer, and considering the import- ance of the subject, we append its intro- ductory remarks, and also an exact...

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patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen

President—His Grace the DUKE OF NOBTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L, Chairman—EDWARD BIRKBECK, ESQ.. il.P.,...

The most distressing calamities in connection with this disastrous storm of the 10th. Febru- ary happened at this place. It was a storm which raged on some portions of the east coast with a severity unequalled within the memory of...

Rescue of a French Crew at Barry Dock.

ON the morning of 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was on her way from Brest to Swansea with a cargo of onions. A strong gale from the W.N.W. was blowing, with...

EIGHT motor life-boats have been named during 1938, two on the coast of Devon, at Salcombe and Appledore, two on the Irish coast, at Arklow and Dun Laoghaire, and the other four at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Whitby, Yorkshire, Peel, Isle of...

THE DUKE OF MOXTROSE, who had been associated with the Life-boat Service for nearly fifty years and had been Treasurer of the Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, died on the 20th of January, 1954.

He...

Chairman of the Bradford Branch, and also of his work as Chairman of the Bradford Life-boat Bazaar, has been elected a Vice- President of the Institution.

The following awards have also been made :—• To the Rev. T. N....

Whitby.

A courageous and arduous service was performed by the crew of the Whitby Motor Life-boat in the early morning of the 15th November, when they went to the rescue of the fivemasted schooner, the Cap Palos, of...