LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 3 l ST. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, three miles south-east of Ramsgate, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £12 18s..

JUNE 11TH. - DOVER, KENT. At 4.25 P.M. a message was received from the duty staff officer at Dover that a boat was drifting four miles off the Port War Signal Station, and might have people on board. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a...

JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...

FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.

At 9.30 at night the King’s harbour master telephoned that Portwrinkle coastguard had reported flashes. Further reports were received from other coastguards, but it was uncertain whether...

APRIL 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

An aeroplane was reported to have made a forced landing on the sea, but nothing could be found. - Paid permanent crew..

In the first thirty-three months of war life-boats have rescued 4754 lives. They have rescued more lives in these thirty-three months of war than in the last thirteen years of peace..

The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place...

St. Marks Church at Akyab, Burma, has just been reopened, and one of the first things that it has done is to send a gift of 69 tupees to the Institution..