LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...

DECEMBER MEETING DUNGENESS, KENT. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th September, 1940, an R.A.F. pilot baled out from his aeroplane and came down in the sea five miles S.W.

by W. of Galloways. The weather was moderate....

Dungeness, Kent. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that two vessels had been in collision twelve miles south-south-west of Dungeness. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E....

Margate, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received through the North Foreland radio station that the General Post Office cable ship Ariel had received...

Dover and Walmer, Kent. At 2.24 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Flandres, of Antwerp, had been in collision with the Liberian steamer Trader four miles south-east of the Goodwin Sands,...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 4.22 on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received from the skipper of the fishing vessel Wiseman that the local fishing vessel Mayflower was ashore at Cairnbulg Point. At 4.36 the life-boat...

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THE Institution has now entered on the hundredth year of its existence. Its first century will actually be completed on 4th March, 1924. On that day, in 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, with the Archbishop of Canterbury...