LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Japan.

THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...

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In the House of Commons in April the Secretary of State for Defence was asked how many times in the last three years the helicopter then at Manston, Kent, had been used to assist in sea rescue operations, and how many people had been rescued...

Lifeboat and hovercraft launches remainder of March-June 2006 Listings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May 5,12 ON-1262(17-33):Jun 13 D-536:Apr 20,May 7(x2),Jun 13 ABERDOVEY B-758:Apr 21,May 1,Jun 10,11(x2),13 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr 13,20,27,28, May...

IN the Report of the General Superin- tendent of the Life-saving Service, it is stated that there were at the close of the last flscal year 194 stations, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...

Reproduction of the Portrait of a Famous Coxswain.

THE Institution is preparing a Life-boat Calendar for 1931, which will be ready in November. In previous years the calendars have consisted of reproduc- tions of paintings...

To JOHN JAGO, on his retirement, after serving 35 years as Signalman and previously 16 years as a member of the crew of the Rye Harbour Life-boat, a Pension.

To ALEXANDER SINCLAIR, on his retirement, after serving 11 years...

M. ANDRE CITROEN has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of his valuable services in showing on behalf of the Institution films of the two African expeditions which have been carried out by the Citroen...