LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...

Jan. 5.—Voted 21. 1 Os. to 15 ve men for rescuing, by means of lines from the shore, the crew of four men from the schooner Anne Knox, of Glasgow, which had dragged her anchors and stranded on the bench, at Douglas, Isle of Man, during; a...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....

A REMARKABLE feature of life-boat appeals during recent years has been the number of gifts for building motor life-boats for the Scottish coast received from ladies in Scotland. Since the beginning of 1928 nine such gifts have been received,...

Sweet Revenge Please allow me to have sweet revenge on my friend Mr Tony Pearce, who is the auxiliary in charge of St Davids coastguard station.

When I first took over as the honorary secretary of St Davids lifeboat station...

THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.

Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 13th of March, 1951, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...

WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...