LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in the open air—exposing the face and chest to the breeze, except in severe weather.

To CLEAR THE THROAT— 2. Place the patient gently face downwards, with one wrist under the...

NOVEMBER 12-13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and many vessels, held up by the gale, were in danger to the windward of Southend pier. The motor lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No....

ON Saturday, 19th November last, the St. Helier life-boat took part in another midnight rescue two months after that which earned Coxswain Thomas King a Gold Medal and his crew bronze medals, last September 14th. This time the station...

Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.

Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.2 on the afternoon of the 25th of November, 1952, a coastguardsman at Pett tele- phoned that a fishing boat was in diffi- culties near the shore off Rye. Later the Fairlight coastguard stated that she had apparently...

SEPTEMBER 20TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. The French fishing boat Henri Lucia had been driven ashore on the uninhabited island of Ganilly. Her crew of four got on to the island and the skipper stayed on board his boat, but none of them...

Miss MARGARET POWER, honorary sec- retary of the Cobham branch, who runs a stamp club for the Institution, will be very glad to receive jubilee stamps issued by the Dominions and Colonies, especially the higher-priced ones, whether used or...