LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THIS year's competition, tie fifth to be held, proved, on the whole, still more successful than last year's, when the competition was revived after an inter- val of three years.

Nine hundred and forty-seven schools...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...

IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...

1st August to 31st October, 1935.

Greater London.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drive, with address by the assistant district organizing secretary.

HAYES.—Annual meeting on 31st October. Speaker :...

cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...

WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....

THE " Abstracts of the Shipping Casual- ties which have occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June, 1896," have recently been issued by the Board of Trade, and are of the deepest interest,...