LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE ninety-first Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 21st, 1915, at 3.30 p.m. The Right Hon.

Walter...

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

THE Centenary celebrations began with the meeting, in the Guildhall, described on another page, on the Institution's hundredth birthday—4th March. They are being...

• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...

Following the publication in the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT of a description of the work of present-day divisional inspectors of lifeboats, here are some extracts from an article by the late Captain Basil Hall, RN, a one-time inspector of...

As this issue of the JOURNAL probably comes before many of the head teachers of National Schools throughout the j United Kingdom for the first time, j and in view of their widespread co- j operation in the Prize Essay Competition, it seems...

JUST after four in the morning of 8th February, 1934, the life-boat station at Runswick, Yorkshire, re- ceived a message from the coastguard that distress signals were being fired five miles N.N.E. of Staithes Nab. A gale was blowing from...

'COME ON, BEN,' and as Bridlington lifeboat prepares to launch on service Police Constable Usher quickly boards as seventh man; 'I'll come with you,' and at Douglas Chief Inspector Robin Corrin (later Deputy Chief...

IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...