LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on 9th October, 1965, the coastguard notified the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a half miles east of the station. At 12 o'clock the IRB launched at high water in a strong...

MR. DONALD STEWARD, of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, Norfolk, is organizing a national competition in aid of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, based on the attendance at the 1967 Motor Show. The first prize will be a new motor...

DEC. 5TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. A trawler had been reported on fire, but got help from other trawlers. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..

DECEMBER 10TH. - MOELFRE ANGLESEY. An unknown drifter had struck a mine, but the life-boat found only wreckage. - Rewards, £7 1s..

AUGUST 12TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. A steamer had gone aground, but was found in no immediate danger. - Rewards, £8 15s..

A COMPARISON BETWEEN LIFE-BOAT SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

I AM publishing here a list of the ships to the assistance of which the Life-boats have...

ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution...

The Southern African Branch, which was formed at a meeting at the end of February, 1942, had within a year sent the Institution £9,000 out of the £11,000 which it aims to raise in order to provide a motor life-boat to be named...