LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Harrison's Gift
THE naming ceremony of a motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, took place on 25th June. The life-boat is a gift from Lady Harrison in memory of her late husband, Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the shipowner, of Cheshire and Hampshire, who...
Category: Donations
A Sailing Dinghy
Poole, Dorset. At 7.40 on the even- ing of the 2nd of January, 1959, the police at Wareham told the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had left Wareham at three o'clock in the afternoon and had not returned. The crew consisted of a father...
Our Life-Boat Crews and Property Salvage Services
A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Tijl Uilenspiegel (5)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Dancing Day
Loughton and district branch had the help of Chingford Morris dancers for the highlight of its recent lifeboat week.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bookshelf
some recent publications reviewed HEAVY WEATHER SAILING by K. Adlard Coles, revised by Peter Bruce published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £30 ISBN 07136 3431 6 'Heavy Weather Sailing' has long been the standard textbook on the...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.
The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN...
Category: Branches