LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935
IN 1935 the Institution received a gift of £3,000 from Mrs. E. W. Montford, J.P., of Market Drayton, Shropshire, who is patron of the Stoke-on-Trent Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to provide a motor life-boat as a thank-offering for the...
Category: Donations
Two Lp Records for the Rnli
For more than 30 years the Lifeboat Mixed Voice Choir of Forest Row, Sussex, has sung carols at Christmas time for the RNLI and, in that time, has raised more than £5,000. What started as a small band of singers has grown into an...
Category: Advertisement
Bereby
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. At 3 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a ship was ashore at Ringfad Point, Killough, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 3.20 A.M. A S.E.wind was blowing,...
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— 14th November.
Lightvessels had fired signals, but it was found that they were calling for their tender, as one of the crew of the Edinburgh Lightvessel had died.— Rewards, £16 17s. 6d..
Saving Life from Shipwreck
IN the Wreck Returns presented by the Board of Trade every year to Parliament, it is recorded that, from the very nature of the circumstances, the largest number of lives saved from founderings and collisions in the seas of the British Isles...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Income at a Glance
The Institution's Income at a Glance.
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1932.
£ s. d.
38 6 0 —••••— — -—H ——«* Subscriptions,...
Category: Accounts
The Equipment of a Life-Boat
THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Franklin Mint Limited,
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Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Crew
MY theme is a very old one Yet one that's ever new, 'Tis about those sturdy heroes The gallant life-boat crew.
Each year they add fresh laurels To their glorious scroll of fame; Their daring deeds are known to all...
Category: Poetry
St. Joseph (1)
Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...