LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.

In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...

THE committee of management greatly regret the death, on 28th July, at the age of 72. of their colleague Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Bland Dixon, K.C.B. Sir Robert concluded a dis- tinguished career in the navy by serving as engineer-in...

Lifeboat crews have noticed that jumping into water from a height is becoming ever more popular around our coasts. The craze, known as tombstoning, has led to 139 incidents for emergency services in the past 5 years, including 12 fatalities...

Dover, Kent.—At 7.37 oil the night of the 21st of March, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two ships had been in collision in a fog four miles south-east of Dover. They were the S.S. Benwyvis, of Leith, and the...

HOLIDAYMAKERS may come and holidaymakers may go, and at Skegness they do that by their thousands, but the town and its people have all the contentment and assurance of deep roots and long friendships. There is above all a sense of continuity...

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Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.

Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...

THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...

BOOM! Booml The sound of the signal gun Thrills the heart, as it startles the ear, And swift as their flying feet can run The men rush out as the sound they hear; And swift as their strong hands can undo, Shackle and fastenings are undone...