LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...

Subscription rates Shoreline goes from strength to strength; there are 116,000 members at the moment with hundreds of new applications received at RNLI headquarters every month. Inevitably, subscription rates must keep in line with rising...

Plymouth, Devon. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of March, 1958, the Queen's harbour master informed the coxswain that the coaster Lapwing, of London, was drifting out of control with engine failure six to seven miles...

AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...

THE Institution is again issuing a life-boat Christmas card and calendar.

They will both have reproduced on them in colours a picture, specially g linted for the Institution by Mr.

ernard Gribble...

SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. — On the morning of the 80th September, a vessel was seen with signals of distress about 5 miles 13. of Skegness. The crew of the Herbert Ingra,m> Life-boat were at once summoned, and the Life-boat having been...

During the year life-boats were launched 1,081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war.

The Record Month by Month 1940 January...

CRESSWEL NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 30th April while the wind was blowing half a gale from S.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the 8.8.

Strathcarron, of Glasgow, bound from Danzic for Philadelphia, via the Tyne,...