LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THURSDAY, 11th January, 1900.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

HAVING referred elsewhere to the very practical help rendered by the Military in assisting in the launch of the Formby Life-boat, we are very glad to be able to record that the Senior Service has not been behind in rendering help when help...

JANUARY 4TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the morning news was received from Valentia Radio that the S.S. Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. The crew were called out at once and were on board the life-boat about ten o’clock, but...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1947, distress signals made by a steam whistle could be heard. In a dense fog the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at...

THURSDAY, 8th September, 1892.

Colonel FrrzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...

The Life-boat in Verse. An anthology covering a hundred years, a commentary by Sir John Gumming and Charles "' the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Hodder Selected with Vince. Published for & Stoughton. 25. 6d.MUCH verse...

The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...

In place of a "Focus" report on a life-boat station we are publishing the following contribution sent to us by a crewman of the Jersey life-boat, who wishes to remain anonymous. The article was received after "Focus on St....