LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHEN the character of the services performed by the life-boats, and the dangers and diffi- culties which they have to encounter, are taken into consideration, it is rather matter for astonishment that they do not frequently fail in effecting...

Naming and dedication Ceremonies Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-Atlantic 21 Joseph B. Press The turnout was as good as the glorious weather for the naming ceremony and service of dedication for Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21...

• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...

Books by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell and Commander H. B. Baothby.

Brave Men All. By Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O. (Hodder & Stoughton, 7s. 6d. net).

Spunyarn. By Commander H....

At 2.10 on the morning of the 12th February, the Coxswain at Plymouth received information from the Coastguard that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the s.s. Deventia, of Workington, was in distress off Bolt Head, eighteen miles...

ATTEMPT TO REFLOAT A STEAMER Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the night of the 3rd of January, 1948,- the S.S. Lynn Trader went ashore about one mile south of Flamborough Head while on passage, in ballast, from King's Lynn to Blyth. She...

Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...

1st January Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.

CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...