LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
Category: Articles
Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, J.P., Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Blakeney Branch
BY the death last November, at the age of 83, of Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station which the Institu- tion has maintained at Blakeney, Norfolk, since 1862, the Institution has lost a valued...
Category: Obituaries
The American Steamer Park Holland, of Portland, Maine
MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...
Top: The Indomitable Keith (centre) And His Rescuers Are Safe At Last
Top: The indomitable Keith (centre) and his rescuers are safe at last. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A new life-boat on PEAKE'S design has been recently placed at Hauxley by the National Life-boat Institution, in lieu of the one previously stationed there, which was found to be too heavy, and to draw too much...
Category: Articles
The Danish Steamer Sparta, Anna
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 A.M. the port war signal station reported that the Danish steamer Sparta was in difficulties, and a second message was received shortly afterwards that the Belgian steamer...
The American Steamer Park Holland, of Portland, Maine (1)
MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...
Imagine the Sealed Orange Superstructure As a Permanently Inflated Air Bag'
Imagine the sealed orange superstructure as a permanently inflated air bag' and it is easier to imagine the upward lorce it is generating as this Tyne class hleooai rolls upright. This view also shows how the height of the upperworks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
Category: Articles
Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
Category: Articles