LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXVII.—DUNDALK.
Stoctport Sunday School, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat Station is on a low flat shore, three miles south of Soldiers' Point, the southern side of the...
Category: Articles
The New York Life-Saving Benevolent Association
IT can scarcely fail to be interesting to such of our readers as take an interest in the subject of saving lives from shipwreck to know what is being done in furtherance of that humane object in other countries than our own. To learn how far...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service Cricket Team at Orpington
(See "A Life-boat Diary"). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: Plated Up
THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat
Three overboard FOLLOWING reports of three men overboard from a motor boat off Bangor Harbour, Belfast Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Bangor lifeboat station at 1849 on July 21, 1987 and the station's D class inflatable...
List of the Medals of the Institution Voted to Naval and Marine Officers. [Continued.]
IN our issue for November we published the second list of the Gold and Silver Medals voted by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to officers of the Royal Navy and Marines, in acknowledge- ment of their gallant deeds in saving life from...
Category: Medals
"Lee Oh !"
Sailing Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" It seemed scarcely possible that the life-boat could reach the ketch before she broke up....
Category: Songs
Prize-Winning Essay
THE following essay was adjudged the best in a competition organised by the Institution and open to boys and girls up to the age of eleven in Great Britain and Ireland. It was written by Winefride Claire Davies, of the Old Colwyn County...
Category: Articles
A New Experimental Life-Boat With a Glass-Reinforced Plastic Hull and Deck— She Is 40-Foot Long-Was on 15Th January 1969 on View Tothe Press at Newhaven Sussex Her
A new experimental life-boat with a glass-reinforced plastic hull and deck— she is 40-foot long-was on 15th January, 1969, on view tothe press at Newhaven, Sussex. Here the boat, which has a maximum speed of 19 knots and cruising speed of 17... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adrian
JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .
a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not...