LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE numerous enthusiastic bands of workers on behalf of the Life-boat Satur- day Fund have, throughout the United Kingdom, had exceptional obstacles and difficulties to deal with this year, as the result of the multitudinous appeals, in...
Category: Articles
Messages of Congratulation from Abroad
ON 4th March, the hundredth birth- day of the Institution, the following telegrams of congratulation were received from abroad—from foreign Governments, Life-boat Services and Shipping and Sailors' Societies. They are another tribute to...
Category: Correspondence
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
TROON, N.B.—This seaport town in Ayrshire having been suggested to the Institution as a desirable station for a Life- boat, and local co-operation having been afforded to the proposed undertaking, such a lx).it has accordingly been placed...
Category: Articles
Penlee
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian Life-Boat Society. (From the Yorkshire Post, 15th June, 1898.)
IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
Category: Articles
Saga
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Category: Advertisement
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1935.
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61 7 0 BB _B _ _ __ _ MHB Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspec- tion of Life-boats and Life-boat...
Category: Accounts
H.M. Tug Fairplay II
MARCH 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11 A.M. it was reported that H.M. Tug Fairplay II had stranded on the West Salt Scar Rock, near Redcar. At 11.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched.
The...
Fourteen Rescued from German Ship
AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
Category: Services