LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...

Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...

Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.

Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...

ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...

H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 6th of March, 1961, and presented medals for gallantry and other...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 12th day of March, 1902, The Eight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the...

Ix a former number of this Journal we have recorded that 36,000 fishing-boats, employ- ing 150,000 men and boys, are annually engaged in the fisheries of the United King- dom. In the April number will be found some statistics of the Herring...

THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...