LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Important Question of Electrical Communication on the Coast. (From "The Times," January 12, 1892.)
WHEN the Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION brings the present lamentable state of our coast communications under the notice of Parliament next Session, it is to be hoped that the Government will either accept Ms proposals...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Annual Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild and Life-boat Day workers on 29th April. Speakers : The Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, a Vice- President of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours: Privy Counsellor Mr. James H. Hoy, D.L., M.P. for the Leith Division of Edinburgh since 1950.
R.N.L.I. Committee of Management...
Category: Awards
Charles Livingstone (3)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Service In 1935. The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years
The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
Category: Articles
"Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast."
IN the review of Major Ernest Cooper's book Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was mentioned that the book could be bought from the Institution, price 3s. 6d. post...
Category: Advertisement
The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
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Asie
BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...
The S.S. Lady Grey
The same Life-boat was launched five days later in conjunction with her consort, the Robert and Mary Ellis, to the help of the s.s. Lady Grey of West Hartlepool, which had stranded on Whitby Bocks about half a mile from the West Pier head....