LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Minister's Plea for the Life-Boat Service
SPEAKING in the new Parish Church, Ardrossan, on Sunday, September 15th, the Rev. R. P. Fairlie, taking the text Mark iv. v. 41, pointed out that, while several of Christ's disciples were fisher- men, their work was only on a little...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
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The Storeyard's Children's Party
Fos the third year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to children living in the neigh- bourhood of the Storeyard. The party was given...
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Two Inflatable Dinghies
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
The Danish Schooner The Mogens Koch
Newhaven (Sussex).
On 7th December, the day on which the gales reached their height, the Newhaven Motor Life-boat was called out just before 7.30 in the morning to the help of a Danish schooner, the Mogens Koch, which had...
The Best Essay In the Competition
The Best Essay in the Competition.
By BKENDA DARLINGTON (aged 9J), of Summerbank Girls' School, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE A GOOD LIFE-BOATMAN.
Just as a man...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1878
THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., V.P., CHAIRMAN OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next...
Category: Meetings
A New Life-Boat Depot
IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...
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Your Letters
Donations sewn up I was interested to read the letter in the Summer issue, 'Donations in lieu of reward.' This is a scheme I have operated for some time now, I have been involved with sewing machines most of my life and operated a...
Category: Correspondence
Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...