LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1933.
£ s. d.
36 1 6 H MHU HMI HB HBB Sulisci'lpt ions, Donations and Lifeboat Days.
38 1 6 ———••— ——...
Category: Accounts
November
Launches 62 Lives rescued 8
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set...
Category: Services
A Curragh
Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 23rd of October, 1957, the honorary secretary received a request for the life-boat to make forClare Island in Clew Bay to search for a curragh, which was missing with five people on...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...
Category: Articles
A Close-Up Broadside View
A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Letters...
Shoreline Service I read with interest the report on page 10 of the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT, concerning the beaching of the Prince Ivanhoe at Horton, off the Gower, South Wales. I was on holiday and happened...
Category: Correspondence
Obituary. Sir John Cameron Lamb
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Honorary Workers—1958 and 1959
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Empire Breeze (1)
MARCH 13TH - 15TH. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the 5th February the S.S. Empire Breeze had stranded on the Bondicar Rocks, and the Amble lifeboat had rescued her crew. On the 13th March the Empire Breeze was refloated and taken in tow...
Audrey
On the 31st July the barge Audrey, of London, with a crew of two, had her sails carried away in the Whitaker channel, while bound from London to Rochford with a cargo of wheat. A moderate to strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....