LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A New Appointment MR. Alasdair Garrett has been appointed to promote the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association in the field and to start what, it is hoped, will be a big and successful drive to recruit new members. For some...

IN the Report of the General Superin- tendent of the Life-saving Service, it is stated that there were at the close of the last flscal year 194 stations, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...

OUR Great Exhibition—nay, the World's Great Exhibition—is open to the world's view at last. T'he most numerous, the grandest collection of the useful works of man that was ever brought together within the walls of a single...

AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...

XII.—GROOMSPORT.

The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...

Award* to Honorary Workers.

SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...

WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...

Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...