LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...

This Life-boat was also afloat all the night of the 25th November, in conse- quence of distress signals being exhibited from the lightship, from which it was subsequently ascertained that the vessel which had required aid had got off the...

On the 29th December the Covent Garden Life-boat went out, in reply to signals of distress shown from the timber-laden barque Loreley, of Arendal, having on board a crew of twelve men, which had been on the Scroby Sands, and was in a...

Fifteen local motor fishing cobles put to sea early on the morning of the 2nd April, in moderate weather. By 8 A.M. the weather was rapidly becoming worse and the sea was very rough. The pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the Third was...

MR. R. RENNISOX, the manager and guide of the old blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, famous for runaway marriages, which is visited by thousands of people every year, very kindly offered, at the end of June, 1950, to have collecting...

IN the Queen's first Birthday Honours Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the Committee of Management, was appointed a Knight of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his public services as "Chairman of the Isle...

Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...

The first life-boat day to be held in oae af the Dominions for the British beat Service was held ia Capetown on February 4th. It raised £1506. This day vas of the appeal which Miss Pattie Price has beea making throughout the Union of...