LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.

In 88 of those 169 launches the...

(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.

Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...

Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Annual Meeting. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, St., Chairman of the Institution. Amount collected in 1932 £244, as compared with £184 in 1931.

Visit of new Skegness Motor...

Thursday, 2nd April, 1868.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

WHEN OTHERS SEEK SHELTER The first Trent Class lifeboat 'RNLB The Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma' by Christopher Southcombe The original painting, which now hangs at Broadlands, was presented by the artist to the Countess...

OWING to the fact that so many schools have been moved on account of the war, it has been regretfully decided not to hold the Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat Essay Competition for Elementary Schools in 1940..

BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; HORN- SEA, YORKSHIRE; MABLETHORPE, LIN- COLNSHIRE ; MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND ; THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; and RAMSGATE, KENT. — The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these Stations have recently been replaced...

Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 275 Lifeboat Services 276 A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court 282 Volume XLIII ._ , 150th Anniversary Celebrations in Scotland 285 Number 451 Coming Events 285 Arun Development 286 Sea Rescue: a...