LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tekwiji
At about 12.30 P.M. on the 10th of October, a schooner was seen driving dangerously near the outer end of Teignmouth bar. A strong S.S.W.
gale had been blowing all night, but it had then moderated somewhat; the seas however...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
FOR the second year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, | gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to about 160 children living in the neighbourhood of the Storeyard. It was...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremony of the Lerwick Motor Life-Boat
IN 1930 the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands, and placed there a 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat, the largest and most powerful type which it is now building. (A full description of this...
Category: Inaugurations
"The Life-Boat and Its Story."
WE have received a copy of " The Life- Boat and Its Story," by Noel T. Methley (Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., price 7s. &d.) too late for review in this issue of the Life-boat Journal. We can, therefore, at the present moment,...
Category: Articles
Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby
A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for...
Category: Obituaries
All In a Day's Work
How does a volunteer lifeboat crew member find the time to juggle their work and personal life with their lifeboat duties - and why? Jon Jones spent some time on the Isle of Wight with Bembridge coxswain Martin Woodward to try to get some...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—The schooner | Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind from the E.N.E. was blowing at the...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Essay Competition
Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.
THE challenge shield and individual prizes won by Greater London schools in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year were presented by Major- General the Right Hon. J. E....
Category: Articles
The Boy
Shortly after 11 A.M. on the 5th October a small boat was observed about four miles to the N.E.of Buckie Harbour, evidently in dis- tress. By aid of glasses it was seen that the sail had been blown away and that the occupant was holding up...
Letters
Lottery—win and share This morning I had numerous bills in the first post and was wondering how to pay them when I opened your letter of July 21 notifying me of my tremendous luck in winning £1,000 in the RNLI national lottery. I thank...
Category: Correspondence