LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Sea Rescue by Gardner Soule (Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia) is written by a journalist and brings an urgent, exciting interest to a wide range of dramatic sea stories. Ranging from the recovery of splashed-down spacemen to broken...

Mr. Norman Clark Neill, who died in March, at the age of fifty-two, was appointed a member of the committee of management in November, 1933, and served on the boat committee and construction committee. He brought to the work of the...

Wells, Norfolk.—At 7 A.M. on the 24th May the motor cruiser Water Nymph left Wells for Boston, in charge of the life-boat's second-coxswain and another man. Later on the coastguard reported that she was flying distress signals, and the...

IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they...

Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 26th of December, 1952, the commanding officer of the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, which had been aground on the Scroby Sands since the 3rd of Decem- ber, wirelessed...

Hartlepool, Co, Durham. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 12thSeptember, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off the Heugh break- water. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the night of the 9th October, 1961, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a Polish fishing vessel was aground near the old pier lighthouse.

At eleven o'clock, the...

MR. H. A. Lyndsay, B.Sc., M.R.I.N.A., has been appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution. Mr. Lyndsay, who has been principal officer of Sir J. H. Biles and Company, naval archi- tects and engineers, for over thirty years, is a...