LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Stations
As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
1st July to 30th September.
Leaflets {or the Help of Honorary Secretaries and Collectors.
WE think that our Honorary Workers will like to have the following list of the leaflets (which have just been...
Category: Branches
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies (1)
EIGHT new motor life-boats were named during the summer of 1949, two on the English coast, at Swanage and East- bourne, three on the Welsh coast, at New Quay (Cardigan), Barmouth, and Porthdinllaen, two in Northern Ireland, at Portrush and...
Category: Inaugurations
Naming Ceremonies Handing Over and Dedications
Girvan, June 25 The second of the new 33ft Brede class lifeboats to go on station in Scotland was named Philip Vaux at a ceremony which took place at Girvan Harbour on Saturday June 25. Largely funded from a bequest by the late Mrs Elizabeth...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
Category: Services
The Collapsible Life-Boat
IN No. 10 of this Journal we described and eulogized this, as we believe, invaluable boat, invented by the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, of Fareham, and in our 23rd Number we stated that we should not cease to draw the attention of our readers to its...
Category: Articles
Contents of Contribution Boxes, 1896
EXCLUDING THOSE BELONGINQ TO BRANCHES.
£. *. rf.
138 13 7 279 128 - 5 1 13 - 7 - 5 8 - 10 6 - 6 6 - 7 9 1 11 8 - 10 6 19- 1 11 5 12- - 7 6 213 - 16 - 3-9 1 - - 176 - 5 3 - 7 9 - 17 6 - 11 8 25- -...
Category: Donations
A Contrast
IT is a lovely morning in July, the morning after the Royal St. George's Regatta.
Kingstown Harbour is bright and beautiful with the taper masts and snowy canvas of a whole fleet of yachts. An " ocean race"...
Category: Articles