LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

P*OR those who wish permanently to benefit what must necessarily be a permanent Work of Humanity.

I give and bequeath to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, London,...

YEAR after year the Board of Trade draws public attention to the shipping catas- trophes occurring on our rock-bound shores, as though to remind us that a large proportion of the luxuries and comforts we daily enjoy are obtained at the cost...

THE Wreck Register which has been issued within the last few days by the Board of Trade affords, in its elaborate and care- fully prepared tables, abundant matter for consideration and thought. Many of the facts laid before us draw from us...

IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...

THE Italian Government lias recog- nised the gallantry of the Life-boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and of the others who took part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian steamer Iscibo on 27th October, 1927, by the award of...

Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...

THE BOARD OP TRADE have recently! issued their very interesting Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping casualties occurring on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The statistics now...

" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.

'•What, sir...