LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Experimental Motor Life-Boat
THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
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Marine Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition
THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...
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A Sufficiency of Life-Boats In Passenger Ships a Pecuniary Question
SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
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A Gallant Coxswain
THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
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The Women Launchers of Dungeness
[This interview was broadcast in the B.B.C. programme Radio Newsreel on 19th of March, 1953, when Mr. Valentine Selsey of the B.B.C. spoke to Miss Madge Tart and Mrs. Ellen Tart, of Dungeness. It is reproduced by the courtesy of the B.B.C.] ...
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Letters
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence
Notes of the Quarter
IN a world in which good news tends more and more to be excluded from the front pages of newspapers, it is gratifying to be able to record that the R.N.L.I.'s record last year was one of consistent and outstanding success. The number of...
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Working Away...
'Oh, we'll be there from about eight, see you when you arrive' said the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. As I put the handset down I reflected on the distance some of those 'we's would have to travel to be at...
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