LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A number of valuable fund raising suggestions have been put forward by Mrs.

W. E. Huntley, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and some of them are listed here.

• At a party or any social gathering ask couples...

THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding...

The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...

The smack John James, of Chester, bound from Dublin to Aberdovey, in ballast, was observed on the morning of the 17th October, in a disabled state, with her sails blown away, while the wind was blowing strong from the N., and the sea was...

RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.

This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...

EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.

There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...

At 10 P.M. on the 27th October, in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Dr. Batton was launched from this station, and proceeded through a heavy sea and fresh breeze at S.E. to the assistance of the barque Atlantic, of Grimstad, which...

CAISTEE, NORFOLK.—At 4 a.m. on the 7th October, flares and rockets were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, apparently fired from a steam vessel on the sand. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was promptly launched, and in going...