LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SWANSEA —On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of...

WITH the exception of Liverpool no Station Branch contributes so much each year to the Institution's revenue as Eastbourne. With a population of over 60,000 inhabitants, and a large number Instituof summer visitors, it has opportunities...

SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...

ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...

Cheques totalling £4,000 were presented to three charities at St. Martin's School, Walton, Surrey, in October. This sum was raised at the school fete in July—and was nearly double the amount raised at the late fete three years ago....

DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...

Exmouth, Devon; Fenit (Tralee Bay), Co. Kerry; Dungeness, Kent; Longhope, Orkneys.

THE Exmouth naming ceremony was held on 29th August in the presence of nearly 8,000 people. Among those taking part in the ceremony were...

DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.

ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...