LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hundred Years Ago
AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.
As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and...
Category: Articles
"The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound."
WE have pleasure in introducing to our readers the following extracts from a beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound," by the well-known Author of " Ruins of Many Lands," " Pleasure,"...
Category: Poetry
Awards to Coxswains
TIIK following awards were made to Coxswains during November and De- cember, 1920, and January, 1921 :-- To JAMES CHISHOLM, on his retirement after serving 28 years as Coxswain, and, previous to that, for 5 years as Second Coxswain of the St...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom. Montrose Branch
LXV. MONTROSE No. 1.—The Mincing Lane, 33 feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LXVI. Ditto No. 2.—The Roman Governor of Caer Hun, 30 feet by 8 feet, 10 oa s. ' STANDING upon what may be termed a narrow sandy peninsula, is to be...
Category: Articles
The Civil Service Life-Boats
Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).
DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...
Category: Inaugurations
Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground
ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham- St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a half miles offshore. He immediately told the...
Category: Services
Dagenite Batteries
LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DAGENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.
They don't take...
Category: Advertisement
Dagenite Batteries
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
Dagenite batteries are used extensively by the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ? Dagenite...
Category: Advertisement
Little Knits!
Little knits! Over the last two years Mrs Morley from Cowes has been knitting little lifeboatmen. - View image in PDF
Most are sold during Cowes Week and so far she has raised £80 for the lifeboats in this way.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs