LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OF the many thousands of Londoners who give their help to the Life-boat Service probably very few realize that there is a fleet of Life-boats in London itself—the reserve Life-boats of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION, which are...

THE 150th anniversary of the founding of the Penzance and Penlee station was celebrated by a dinner held at the Queen's Hotel, Penzance on the 12th of March, 1954. The vellum com- memorating the 150 years service of the station was...

Hartlepool, Durham, and Redcar, Yorkshire. — While bound from the River Tees to Blyth the motor vessel Oceanic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, damaged her steering gear and began to drift. At 1.45 in the morning of the 7th of July, when...

SECOND LAUNCH TO FISHING BOAT IN SAME YEAR Plymouth, Devon. At 10.15 on the night of the 17th June, 1962, the coastguard at Rame Head told the honorary secretary a boat was under observation about a quarter of a mile south-west of the...

PROBABLY the highest subscription per capita of any unit in the regular forces to the Institution is from the St.

Kilda detachment of the Royal Artil- lery Guided Weapons Range in the Outer Hebrides.

This...

JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The "Airflow" Coat and...

The brig L'Etoile, of St. Malo, from Oette, bound to Riga, laden with salt, got on the rocks a little to the east- ward of Sudmore, at 9'30 P.M., on the 3rd of May. The night was intensely dark, a fresh gale blowing from the S.W.,...

By COMMODORE THE DUKE OF MONTROSE, K.T., C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., R.N.V.R., Treasurer of the Royal National Life-boat Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.

THIS has been a great event in the...