LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Greater London.

Third Annual Royal Matinee at the Savoy Theatre. (See special report.) Conference of Branch representatives at Westminster City Hall. (See special report in last issue of The Lifeboat.) BALHAM.—Life-boat Day...

Meeting the need Every year there is a rise in the number calls for help received by the RNLI's volunteer crews. In 1994 lifeboats launched 6,156 times - itself a record - but just a year later the figure for 1995 stood at 7,312 launches...

APRIL 1990 Norman Collett, committee member of Seaton, Beer and District branch from 1972 until his death. Prior to moving to Devon he had worked with the West Bromwich branch where he was awarded a framed letter of thanks. Mr Collett was...

November Mrs A C R Scorgie, joint president of Dumfries branch.

Mrs Scorgie was awarded a bar to gold badge in 1993, a gold badge in 1978 and a silver badge in 1963..

Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...

On the 13th November, the schooner Ellen, of Li- verpool, laden with freestone, on entering the River Dee, struck on the bar at its mouth, in a strong breeze from the S.S.E.

Information of the same having been con- veyed...

Arbroath, Angus. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of March, 1959, the fishing boat Bairns Pride left Arbroath to look for the fishing boat Lassie, which was overdue from the fishing grounds. At 9.50 she sent a radio message...

Why are more and more swimmers shunning heated, chlorinated indoor swimming pools in favour of rivers, lakes and the sea?

Outdoor swimming has enjoyed a resurgence recently, whether people are bathing in backwaters, bays,...