LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Open Days The Open Days at the RNLI's Poole Headquarters and Depot, which were postponed from last year due to building work, have been scheduled for August.

Both sites, including the new building, will be open on...

MB. HENRY WATSON, J.P., of Anstru- ther, Fifeshire, died on 12th August, less than a month after he had resigned, on account of ill-health, his position of Joint Honorary Secretary of the Station which he had held with his partner of the...

• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...

JANUARY 16TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1.51 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was flying a distress signal south of Palling Look-out. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...

We lament to record the death, on the 4th January last, of this distinguished marine artist and Member of the Royal Academy.

By Mr. Cooke's death the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . has lost one of its oldest friends....

three months from April to June 1956 life-boats went out 28 times to the help of vessels of foreign countries.

The countries concerned were the Argentine, Belgium, Costa Rica, Den- mark, France, Germany, Italy, Li- beria,...

NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...

IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...