LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
What Lancashire and Yorkshire Have Done for the Life-Boat Cause
IT will be in the memory of our readers that the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued a special appeal last year for funds and increased permanent support. They pointed out that, while each year the efficiency of...
Category: Articles
The Centenary
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Centenary celebrations began with the meeting, in the Guildhall, described on another page, on the Institution's hundredth birthday—4th March. They are being...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex and The Humber, Yorkshire.
LIEUTENANT H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, E.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the Motor Life-boat which was sent last autumn to Southend-on-Sea, on 8th July last, the name given to the boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Loss of Thurso Life-Boat and Boathouse
ON the morning of Monday, the 10th of December, 1956, the Thurso life- boat, Dunnet Head (Civil Service No.
31) and the life-boathouse were totally destroyed by fire. The fire was first noticed shortly after seven...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services. The Life-Boat Illustration
THE accompanying tabular statement clearly shows the important character of the services rendered by the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
It will be seen that during the year (1862) which has just closed,...
Category: Articles
The National Life-Boat Institution
IN the year 1824 was established, in the City of London, mainly through the benevolent and untiring exertions of the late Sir WM. HILLARY, Bart., Mr. THOMAS WILSON, M.P., and others, the "ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOE THE PRESERVATION...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
May (1)
MAY MEETING RINGFORD, Co. ANTRIM. Two men went out in a very small boat, on the 27th October, 1941, to lift lobster pots. A moderately strong and squally off-shore wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Apparently the small boat got into...
Category: Services
High stakes
Lifeboat crews have noticed that jumping into water from a height is becoming ever more popular around our coasts. The craze, known as tombstoning, has led to 139 incidents for emergency services in the past 5 years, including 12 fatalities...
Category: Articles