LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE hundred and eleventh annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Friday, 5th April.

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided,...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig....

EMERGENCY CALL FOR DRUG Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 2 p.m.

on 20th April, 1964, the district nurse told the honorary secretary that a sick woman at Inverie urgently needed a certain drug and it would be necessary to use...

POOR VISIBILITY At 2.15 p.m. on 25th May, 1966, a man informed the motor mechanic that he had seen a launch which seemed to be drifting about three miles south west of Mallaig.

The motor mechanic, together with the honorary...

Jan. 13.—Voted 22. each to the fonr sur- vivors of the crew of the Margate beachmon's surf boat Friend of aU Nations, which was capsized, with, the loss of nine of her crew while on her way to a distressed vessel on the 2nd December last...

RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...

The Missions to Seamen.

" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...

WOLVERHAMPTON has launched an appeal to provide an Atlantic 21 ILB complete with launching tractor, trailer, boathouse, slipway and all operational equipment at Abersoch, North Wales, where many Wolverhampton people, on holiday, take to the...