LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Looking fore and aft
What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains
‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
Improved Rollers for Lifeboat Carriages and Skids
Is No. 43 of this Journal we described and illustrated the portable " Roller Skids " on which life-boats are hauled out of the wafer prior to placing them on their carriages, and in the 59th number an improved self-lubri- cating...
Category: Articles
Bradford's Bazaar. Fund for the Life-Boat House on the Humber
Fund for the Life-boat House on the {lumber.
As all readers of The Lifeboat know, the city of Bradford has been conspicuously generous in its support of the Life-boat Service, and nowhere, on the coast or inland, has the...
Category: Articles
Storm Force celebrates 30 years
Happy 30th birthday to Storm Force, the RNLI’s action-packed club for under 11s.
Born in 1985 and launched at the London Boat Show by actors from TV’s Grange Hill, the RNLI kids’ club, Storm Force, is 30 this year. Look...
Category: Articles
Farewell. Memories of Sixty Years
1904 to 1947—a long period, but a very pleasant time of work and progress in life-boat design. For seventeen years before that, I had the privilege of carrying out, under his supervision, the'designs produced by the late G....
Category: Articles
North Devon Humane Society
BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.
From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...
Category: Articles
Signals for Pilots
Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the ISth section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.
"In the Day-time.—The...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1907
THE MOST HON. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by the Hon. Mr. JUSTICE DARLING.
Supported by the Eight Hon. The EARL OF...
Category: Meetings
Great Rail Journeys
GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS 2007 Departure Dates and Prices First Class Rail Travel 9 Apr £1,150 23, 30 Apr £1,250 7,21,28 May £1,250 4,11,18,25Jun £1,250 2,9, 23, 30 Jul £1,250 6,13 Aug £1,150 20, 27 Aug £1,250...
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