LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1933 more branches held life-boat days than in 1932, more people con- tributed and £l,000 more was collected in this way.

The number of branches holding days was 731, an increase of eighteen. The number of people...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—14th December. A steamer had been in collision with the Newarp light-vessel, but she did not need help.

In response to flares the life-boat then went to Horsey Gap,...

On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.

The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.

MR. JAMES NAPIER, a member of the Committee of Management since 1934, died on the 13th of November, 1953.

From 1934 to 1939 he was a member of the Boat Committee. A ship- builder by profession, he was chairman of the Steel...

On the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1954, the Clovelly, Devon, life-boat William Cantrell Ashley rescued three people from the ketch Progress. The life-boat had to be brought some ten times under the lee of the ketch before the ketch's...

Mrs. Mary E. Pecover, an honorary life-governor of the Institution, died on loth February, 1964. She was appointed honorary secretary of the Thame branch in 1925, received the gold badge awarded to honorary workers nine years later, and...

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