LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Means of Saving Life
The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...
Category: Articles
YLA Section
All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.
(Tel.: 0722-6966).RALLY...
Category: Articles
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 3Oth June, 1965, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 104 times. On 27 occassions - described in chronological order below - they were able K) rescue people in difficulties.
Mudeford, Hampshire....
Category: Services
Listings
Naming ceremonies Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £...
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Dover, Kent.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 3rd August, during fine weather, the second coxswain saw signals from the base of the cliffs in Langdon Bay, and put off with the second motor mechanic and another man in the life-boat's motor...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th September, 1893.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Choosing An Oak Crook for the Stem of a Life-Boat
The Institution's two timber-converters at work.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prince's Appeal to Shipping. The First Response: Gift of Three Motor Life-Boats
FOUR of the leading shipping companies have responded to the appeal on behalf of the Life-boat Service which the Prince of Wales made to shipping in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Institution last...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Establishments
THE following Circular*, which has been issued by the Board of Trade to Life-boat Committees throughout the United Kingdom, provides, under certain indispensable conditions, for the increased efficiency of the lifeboat service.
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Shipwreck Off Brighton
ON the 10th October last at an early hour the inhabitants of Brighton were aroused from their beds by the report of an approach- vious to the life-boats reaching the wreck, several rockets with lines attached had been fired under the...
Category: Services