LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.

Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...

Thursday, 5th Nov. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Jan. 5.—Voted 21. 1 Os. to 15 ve men for rescuing, by means of lines from the shore, the crew of four men from the schooner Anne Knox, of Glasgow, which had dragged her anchors and stranded on the bench, at Douglas, Isle of Man, during; a...

JULY 25TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. A steamer in a convoy was sinking as the result of enemy action, but there was no one on board. The life-boat remained by until she sank, and then found that the crew had been rescued by another vessel. -...

OCTOBER 24TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £19 11s. 6d..

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 4th of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision near Lower Hope Buoy and that one was beginning to sink. The life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...

Garden gnome By dressing up as a garden gnome in last year's Aldeburgh carnival, lifeboat supporter Mr M. H. Catterick won a personal bet for £100 which he very generously donated to the RNLI.

Netball shoot Eight...

GOD HELP OUR MEN AT SEA.

TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING BOATS CREWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1864.

Jan. 2, 1864.—The Newcastle, County Down,...