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A LIFE-BOAT museum was formally opened at Whitby on the 26th of July, 1958, by Lady Georgiana Starkey, daughter of Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Whitby was the last station at which a pulling...

Humber, Yorkshire, — At 6.20 A.M.

on the 23rd February it was learned from the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station that the trawler Algorma, of Grimsby, was ashore nine miles north of Spurn, and in need of...

CAHORE.—It was blowing a heavy storm from the S.E. on the 18th January, when the barque Nanta, of Lussino, bound from Glasgow to Trieste, was observed ashore on the Rusk Bank off the coast of Wexford.

The Life-boat Sir...

Mr. James A. Gardiner, of Campbel- town, Argyllshire, who died on 19th January, 1938, at the age of seventy- eight, had been one of the most dis- tinguished honorary workers of the Institution in Scotland. He was honor- ary secretary of...

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1957, the Wallasey police telephoned to say a yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel opposite the coastguard look-out post. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put...

Dover, Kent. At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1957, a message was received that an open boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles outside the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 1.28 the life-boat South- ern Africa...