LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(This article appeared in Home Chat on the 29th of August, 1953.

It is reproduced by the courtesy of the editor.) THREE or four years ago, in the course of a television programme transmitted one summer's evening...

The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...

The Ilfracombe life-boat also went off twice on the 19th October, and saved the sloop Ann Elizabeth, of Barnstaple, and the brigantine Commodore, of Waterford, and their crews, consisting of 8 men.

During a strong gale...

CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...

COXSWAIN John MacLeod of Barra Island and the other members of the Barra Island crew have received letters of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., in recognition of a long service in which the life-boat...

THE magnificence and terror of a gale on the rock-bound coasts of Cornwall can scarcely be exaggerated. The long impe- tuous swell of the great Atlantic, flinging itself on the rugged granite cliffs which guard the shores, is by its own...

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,...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...