LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...

MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....

THE Ninety-fifth Annual General Meeting of THE ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 2nd May, 1919, at 4 P.M. The Right Hon.

the Lord Chancellor presided, and amongst those...

AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.

She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...

A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...

1st February to 30th April, 1935.

Greater London.

ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing...

• A. F. Mumble's The Rowing Life- Boats of Whitby (Home and Son, Whitby, £1.63—including postage), has been produced with much scholarship and care. Mr Humble, who is acting librarian of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society...