LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Helly Hansen is working with the RNLI to defeat drowning

The sailing gear icon will deliver safety messages to its customers, raise money, and supply the very best kit to the RNLI’s lifesavers. The new kit, due to go on...

DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...

A Central Appeals Committee of voluntary workers for the R.N.L.I. has been formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Crumbie. Its terms of reference are: (i) To advise, through the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., on any matters affecting fund...

By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...

Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast.

ON the evening of 24th September, 1935, the steam trawler Skegness, of Hull, returning to Hull from the Faroes, with eleven men on board, went ashore under Speeton Cliffs on the...

1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in the open air—exposing the face and chest to the breeze, except in severe weather.

To CLEAR THE THROAT— 2. Place the patient gently face downwards, with one wrist under the...

BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. On the evening of 16th January, 1942, the steamer R. J. Cullen, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, was blown ashore at Leanish Point, on the S.E. side of Barra, by a S.E. gale, and on the 16th January, 1942, the Barra...

Ix the last number of this Journal attention was drawn to the valuable co-operation of the Man- chester Branch, and the important services rendered to the Life-boat cause in that city, resulting, as was shown, in the presentation of...