LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William Henry Glendewar, of St. Helier, Jersey. He was an officer of the life-boat for twenty-six years, serving as second-coxswain from January 1913 to March 1919, and then as coxswain until January...

"MAKING THE POUNDS GO FURTHER" "Faith, for a clergyman, is an essential ingredient of life. Hut back in /V.S'/ Vi'eiuly and I had to apply it in a more secular situation - whether or not to infest in HPR. In its early...

Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 7th of September, 1951, the S.S. Lady of Man reported to the Ramsey coastguard that she had seen a cabin cruiser in distress about thirteen miles south-east of Douglas and that the cruiser...

UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1912, has been received, and we extract the following details.

Attention is drawn to the fact that...

FOR many years before the war the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, in Sussex, were opened to the public and the entrance money given to charity.

In 1949, for the first time since the war, they were again opened, for five...

A FAMILY BARGE IN PERIL Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.7 in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a sailing barge was in difficulties and had asked for help three to four miles east-north- east of Strumblc...

The Coastguard Association A VOLUNTARY national organisation to look after the interests of Coastguards is now in process of formation. Entitled 'The Coastguard Association', it will be open to all serving and retired regular and...