LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that the tanker Alva Bay, of London, which was .one mile south-east of Mumbles Head, had reported that she had a very sick man on...

ONCE AGAIN the Earls Court Boat Show has come and gone and what a success story we can relate! We signed on 761 new members: an all-time record. This is a fantastic achievement and I should like to thank the following people for all their...

THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...

DEC. 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 9.45 A.M. the coastguard reported an explosion, and five minutes later a message was received that, a vessel was making distress signals on her siren, east of the piers, at no distance...

Margate, Kent.—At about 4.30 P.M.

on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht was ashore on the north part of Margate Sands.

The weather was squally, with a southerly wind and a rough...

Jan. 12.—Three men saved, with moderate risk to themselves, the crew of four men from the fishing - bait Grace Veale, of St. Ives, which capsized in a moderate gale and heavy sea off St. Ives on the 5th December, 1904.— Reward, II....

FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

OBVERSE.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...

SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...