LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 281 Life-boat Stations...

THE 29th July last was "Life-boat Sunday" at Bangor Cathedral, sermons being preached by the Rev. T. LLOYD KYFFIN, M.A., Rector of Llanfaes, Angle- sey, formerly Honorary Secretary at the Cemaes Life-boat Station, and the col-...

HELP FOR PATIENT At 6.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young girl was suffering from acute appendicitis, and that no other suitable boat was available to take her to the mainland. There was...

THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.

Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...

Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, K.B.B., C.B., has been elected a Vice-President of the Institution. He has been a member of the Committee of Management since 1953. In the same year he became a Vice-President of the Scottish Life-boat...

KINGSDOWNE.—On the 24th January, at 9.30 A.M., when blowing hard from W.S.W., the Life-boat Sabrina went out to the brig Dillwyn, of Swansea, ashore on the South Goodwin Sands. The sea was washing the brig fore and aft, and as the Life-boat...

NAIRN, NAIRNSHIRE.—There was a strong W.S.W. gale and a rough sea on the 6th February. While several of the fishing-boats were out, news came that one of them had been lost and her crew of two hands drowned. Very shortly after this two of...

PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...