LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HARK ! a distant gun is sounding .

O'er the waters, wildly bounding; Raging waves are fast surrounding Some wrecked ship to-night On the shore the breakers, roaring, Loud as thunder now are pouring; Far a signal high...

When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...

JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...

SIR JOHN GHEST GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., died on the 9th of March, 1958, at the age of 89. He joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1921 and was appointed a Vice- President in 1932. He resigned from the Committee in 1956....

Mr. Rowland Berkeley.

WE deeply regret to announce the sudden death on 14th October, after an operation, of Mr. Rowland Berkeley, who was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Institution at the beginning of 1923. Mr. Berkeley...

GIFTS RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8 (XT The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor...

IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...

Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Annual Meeting. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, St., Chairman of the Institution. Amount collected in 1932 £244, as compared with £184 in 1931.

Visit of new Skegness Motor...