LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Monday, the 8th clay of April, 1872, CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS...

CAMPBELTOWN.—A new life-boat station has been established at Campbeltown, in Cantyre, on the West Coast of Scotland, and a 30 ft. 6-oared single-banked, selfrighting life-boat was forwarded there from London in June last. The cost of this...

TH« people of a maritime nation like Great Britain should be especially in- terested in any statistics relating to ships and sailors, and such matters are it may be assumed of particular importance to the friends and supporters of the...

Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..

EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat on this Station has been exchanged for a new boat, provided by some friends of the Institution at Manchester, through J. F.

MILNE, Esq. At their request it is named the William and Mary. It is 34...

IT is hoped in future to publish each year in the summer number of The Life-boat, the record of the services of foreign life-boats to British vessels during the previous year. The record for 1932 is as follows : The United State* of...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 4.35 in the morning of the llth of October, 1948, the coastguard reported a message from the British steamer Woodlark that she had collided with and sunk the fishing vessel Saphir, of Camaret, three miles north-west...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...