LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1935 - ... 64,350 The Woods of which a Life-boat is...
Category: Articles
A Hint to the Swimmer How to Save a Man's Life
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—Many years ago, in India, I was walking home from mess on a darkish, night; I was dressed in uniform, and had on boots, spurs, and straps. As I passed a good sized tank, or...
Category: Correspondence
The Institution's Oldest Supporters
THE Institution has received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 104th year. Two years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling how uncertain her next year's subscription must...
Category: Donations
A British Steamer
DEC. 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British steamer had been sunk by enemy action ten miles east of Withernsea, but when the life-boat arrived she found no one on board, and it was thought that the crew had been rescued by...
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 8TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
A British Wellington bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that four airmen had got ashore during the darkness in their rubber...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past two years, the Institution has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides having...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past three years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...
Category: Articles
Cancer
On the 13th January during a very dense fog, signals of distress were heard from a steamer.
As it was thought that she was ashore on the "Inner Binks," the Life-boat was launched and proceeded along the edge of...
Buckingham (1)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
A Dinghy (2)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 23rd of November.
1956, the Deal coastguard reported that an aircraft of the United States Air Force had crashed into the sea near the Cork lightvessel and asked for...