LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Their fundraising roots lie in the 19th century, but today’s branches continue to attract new members and raise millions of pounds. How do they do it?

From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...

It seems small.

Until you turn it on.

The Rose® Acoustic Wave® music system. The biggest thing about it is the sound.

It measures just 10.5"H x 18"Wx6.5"D and...

On the following day the gale still continued, and as it was reported that several vessels were ashore along the coast, and that others were in danger, the crews of the Life-boats assembled in readiness for service. At about 10 A.M. the brig...

• Writers of fictional sea stories invent a hero, perhaps a villain and a few horrendous storms, then throw in a little romance to hold the interest of the reader. Life, of course, does not fit such neat patterns and only two parts of the...

• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...

HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...

1st April to 31st July.

Greater London.

GREATER LONDON.—Life-boat day.

District conference. (For special report see page 131.) ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing. Amount...

A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...