LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
South-Eastern District Conference
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — On the morning of the 21st December, 1933, the honorary secretary...
Category: Services
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton
Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton.
BY the death, on 23rd July at the age of sixty-two, of Mr. Kalph Brown Scott, Chief Motor Mechanic of the Life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, a Lifeboatman with a very...
Category: Obituaries
Susanna, of Portsmouth
JULY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported flares near the South Shingles Buoy, and at 11.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a north-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea. She searched for some time,...
The French Life-Boat Service
IN June we were honoured by a visit from the COMTE DE BIZEMONT, the Chief Inspector of our sister service in France, and we need hardly say it was a great pleasure to welcome him and show him what he required to see. Among other things the...
Category: Articles
Talking With John Tyrrell FRINA
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
Category: Articles
Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat's Record Journey
AT the same time that the Aberdeen Motor Life-boat was on her way north from Cowes, up the East Coast, a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat was en- gaged on an equally noteworthy journey down the West Coast of Scotland. This was the Pulling and...
Category: Articles
The War Record Year by Year
The 3rd of September, 1939, to the 8th of May, 1945 Year 1939 from 3rd Sept.) 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944.
1945 Totals Launches of Lifeboats to ships in distress on account of the War 200 640 481 244 249 280 118 2,212 Total...
Category: Contents
The Appledore Station. Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt
Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.
IN the last number of The Lifeboat a history was published of the Appledore Station, which was established in 1825, of its...
Category: Articles
The Steam Life-Boat "Queen."
In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
Category: Articles