LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...

G o v e r n o r s - S h o r e l i n e - S t o r m F o r c e Moving with the Times The Institution's membership scheme continues to flourish, with a total of almost 177,000 members at the end of 1990 giving an increase of more than 15% on...

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THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...

Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...

IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they...

At 11.19 A.M., on the 10th February, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Oxwich Point, and that a steamer was endeavour- ing to assist her, but that there was too much sea. The Coxswain having pro- cured...

HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...

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