LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Song
MANY of our friends are often at a loss for a good Life-boat song, to be performed at concerts given on behalf of the Institution. Hence we welcome an excellent song which we have received from Mr. Jacob Davies, entitled, " The...
Category: Songs
Caller Ou and Restless Ocean
Shortly after 9 A.M., on the 26th November, a telegram was received stating that a boat was being driven towards Arbroath, and suggesting that a look-out should be kept for her. A watch was accord- ingly set, and about a quarter of an hour...
Mike Inkster Raised £500 By Running from Whitstable Via Birchington and Mansion and Back a Total of 50 Miles the Money Was Divided Equally Between Whitstable Br
Mike Inkster raised £500 by running from Whitstable via Birchington and Mansion and back, a total of 50 miles. The money was divided equally between Whitstable branch and Cancer Research. Mr Inkster's firm, Pedigree Toys Ltd, kindly... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1923
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
Category: Articles
Agnes, of Preston
MARCH 29TH . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 3.50 in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat was ashore on the Burbo Bank and that seas were washing over her. Two men and a boy were on board. A strong west-southwest,...
Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea
The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...
Category: Articles
Miss B Openshaw
MAY 1989: Miss B. Openshaw, committee member of Penwortham branch for more than 20 years..
Category: Obituaries
Shamrock, of Wexford
On the 9th April, during a strong easterly wind, the smack Shamrock, of Wexford, was seen to strike on the north end of the Dogger Bank, and to hoist signals of distress. The Civil Service life-boat was quickly launched, and on nearing the...
Wheelbarrow Instead of Car.
The chairman of Rickmansworth and Croxley Green branch writes about her flag day: "We had beautiful weather. The sellers were all very keen. The result, £132, is more than last year. My wheelbarrow came in yery useful in delivering...
Category: Articles