LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Humber, Yorkshire, and Skegness, Lincolnshire. — 31st December, 1937.

Flares had been seen from the Inner Dowsing Light-vessel, but a search revealed no sign of any vessel in need of help.—Rewards : The Humber,...

H.R.H. The Princess Marie Louise, presiding at a meeting in London, said: "I dislike the word charity, as it sounds so patronising. It is both a privilege and a sacred duty to support the Life-boat Service.".

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 11.50 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, the coastguard passed on a message from Woolwich asking for help for a naval cutter four miles to the north- east of the Shipwash lightvessel. At five minutes past...

Torbay, Devon.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1950, the Brixham coastguard reported a small yacht in a dangerous position two miles off Beesands, apparently in need of help. At 12.55 the life-boat George Shee...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 9th April the coastguard reported that a motor boat appeared to have broken down two miles S.E. of the coastguard look-out and was drifting west. She was not making signals of distress. At 5.47 P.M. she...

Cloughey, Co. Down.—On the 17th June, 1939, a salvage party, eleven in number, was rescued from the Spanish steamer Arantzaza-Mendi which had gone ashore on the 9th May.—Rewards, silver and bronze medals and monetary awards amounting to...

MR. PERCEVAL FARRANT, who died on 13th March, 1947, was one of the most successful organizing secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. He was in its service for thirty-seven years, and for twenty-eight years of that time he •was...

A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Norwegian girl, who read an article about the Life-boat Service in the March number of English Illustrated, has written to say she wants to know more about the Service and hopes she will find a girl pen-friend interested...