LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart
IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1897
THE BOARD OP TRADE have recently! issued their very interesting Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping casualties occurring on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The statistics now...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, February 1889 issue SOUTH NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK LIFE-BOAT MEN The Life-boat crews of this district, extending from Palling to Southwold, both inclusive, are formed on a ! different system from any...
Category: Articles
Peter Christian
Order by phone: 01273 493 393 quoting 23T02 with your credit/debit card number. By fax: 01273 491774 By post: complete the coupon and send it with your credit/debit card details or cheque to: Peter Christian, 25 Mackley Estate, Henfield Road...
Category: Advertisement
The Gaff-rigged Cutter Twilight
MAN TAKEN OFF SINKING CUTTER Dungeness, Kent. At 6.40 on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the gaff-rigged cutter Twilight was ashore one to two miles west of Dengemarsh look-out, but...
On June 13 1982 Halesowen Branch
On June 13, 1982, Halesowen branch held its second Fun Gala for the 12 primary and junior Stourbridge schools whose children come for their swimming lessons to Mrs Jean Hadley (centre), the branch honorary secretary. It was indeed fun, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Regulations January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
The Centenary Meeting
The CHAIRMAN : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, ladies and gentlemen, to-day is the hundredth birthday of our Life-boat Service.
That is the historic event which we have met here to celebrate.
It is, and...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat House, Wembley
THE Institution took advantage of the fortunate coincidence that the British Empire Exhibition has been held in its Centenary Year, to erect its own house in the. Exhibition grounds. Life-boat House, Wembley, was very appro- priately placed...
Category: Articles