LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

For over twenty years a member of the Kirkcudbright life-boat crew.

(From an etching by the Cumberland artist, Mr. Joseph Simpson.).

FOR THE PAST YEAR members of the staff of HM Prison Dartmoor and a number of the inmates have combined in a voluntary stamp scheme to help the RNLI. Used British and foreign postage stamps have been collected, sorted, graded, made up into...

Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.

He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...

The United States (State Service.

Established 1848).

Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....

Jan. 1.—Voted 81. to 8 men for putting off in the yawl Bravo, of Yarmouth, during a strong gale from the W. on the 29th Nov., and saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Erae, of Sunderland. The vessel had stranded on the Scroby Sand, and her...

THE Centenary Celebrations which began in London with the Centenary Meeting at the Mansion House on 4th March, 1924, concluded on 14th December with a solemn Thanksgiving Service at the Central Hall, Westminster, which was kindly lent to the...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...

Double crossed It is worth remembering that not every plan for raising funds through sponsorship, however well laid, ends in success.

The following is a letter sent to Andrew Young, regional organiser, south west, by two...