LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A "Greater London" Motor Life-Boat. Gift from the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Shoreline
JUST A YEAR AGO—that was when the appeal to raise the cost of a Rother class lifeboat to be named Shoreline was first launched. And what has happened in those twelve months? Well, for a start, membership has risen by neatly a third, from...
Category: Articles
Farewell!
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 78 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1931 62,687 Farewell! By Sir George Shee, Secretary of the...
Category: Articles
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
Category: Articles
The Coperative Bank
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Category: Advertisement
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
ANNUAL Meeting of the London members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Life-boat Day organizers, Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
Canoes, Yachts and Rafts
D class lifeboat rescues 36 people from canoes, yacht and raftsCleethorpes' D class inflatable liferaft was involved in three services on one day on 30 July 1989, rescuing no less than 36 people. The first service started as the crew...
Tank Queen
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that the tanker Tank Queen, of Oslo, had anchored off Southend in dense fog and needed a doctor. One of her deck boys was thought to have...
Manx tales
The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI
Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...
Category: Articles
The Improvisatore. Songs of Society. "Man the Life-Boat!"
During the storms of the past ye «r the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION contributed to the saving of 1121 live: from various shipwrecks—Hatty Paper.
O ALL ye who sit in comfort By the brightly-blazing fire, Do you ever...
Category: Poetry