LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 24th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a sailing dinghy had capsized two miles north-west of Penrhos beach and that her crew of two were clingingto her....

Thursday, llth May, 1933.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Sir JOHN G. CUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., in the chair.

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and the Hon.

George Colville were re-elected...

EVACUATION OF MEN OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND THE FRENCH ARMY FROM DUNKIRK.* THE WORK OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF RAMSGATE AND MARGATE.

At 1.15 in the afternoon of Thursday, the 30th of May, 1940, the Ministry of...

IT is with extreme regret that we have to announce the decease of this much-lamented and valued gentleman, by which event the Shipwreck Institution has been deprived of one of its founders, and of its first Chairman of Committee. For a...

ALL agree that the past year was one of unusual difficulty for any engaged in charitable enterprise. No good work, whatever its character or scope, can be carried on without money, and to obtain this necessary commodity in a sufficient...

THERE is a time-honoured saying that " it is a long lane that has no turning," and the old saw may not inappropriately be applied at the present time to the Life-boat Saturday Fund. For the last three years the Life-boat Saturday...

MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1877, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L.,...