LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent.—On the evening of the 18th July it was reported that a dinghy with a boy on board had been missing from Tankerton since the afternoon.

A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...

IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...

5th December.

A vessel grounded on the Barber Sands, but got oil without help.—Rewards, £41 15s..

Tynemouth, Northumberland, and Sunderland, Co. Durham.—18th February. An empty tug had broken away from tow, but was picked up by a steamer.—• Rewards, Tynemouth, £22 3s. 6d.; Sunderland, £19 5s. 3d..

MAY 25TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.

DUBLIN. A two-seater canoe had been reported overdue but nothing could be found.

- Rewards, £9 13s..

THE Institution has received, under the will of a civil servant of London, a legacy of ten guineas. The will was made in 1916, but the legacy to the Institution was contained in a codicil dated 7th December, 1929. That day was the height...

Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...