LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.

October Meeting.

EOSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.

—On 20th September the Royal Firth, of...

A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.

Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...

THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...

DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...

To EDWIN W. DISTIN, on his retirement, after serving for 29| years as coxswain of the Salcombe life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.

The late GEORGE S. KELLY, who for 15 years was coxswain and 6...

As in the past four years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...

OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...