LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society
THIS national and benevolent Institution held its Annual Meeting at Willis's Rooms on the 20th May. The Right Hon. EARL MANVERS, one of its Vice-Presidents, in the Chair. Amongst those present we observed Sir CHARLES ROWLEY, Bart.,...
Category: Meetings
The Corporation of Trinity-House, London
WE believe that it will be both interesting and instructive to the readers of the Life- Boat Journal generally to have a brief account of the origin, objects, and functions of the Trinity House, London, which is one of the most ancient and...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE-SEA, LANCASHIRE.— The No. 1 Life-boat which has done duty at St. Anne's since 1886 has been re- placed by a new boat of the Liverpoo1 type, 36 feet long by 9 feet wide, fitted with two water-ballast tanks, and row-...
Category: Inaugurations
Saving Life at Sea
To chronicle at the close of each succeed- ing year the notable events which have marked its course, is a very natural and in many ways a useful and profitable duty for statisticians to carry out; and the past year has been anything but un-...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN BENSLEY, on his retirement, after serving 3 additional years as Coxswain of the Gorleston No. 2 Life-boat when the No. 2 Station was temporarily re-opened, an in- crease of his Pension and a Certificate of Service. Bensley had...
Category: Awards
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1881
Jan. 6,1881.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. HENRY SMITH, pilot, of Glou- cester, and 11. to his mate, for saving the owner, and two persons on board the yacht Foam, which was in...
Category: Articles
Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1951 - 77,369 Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-boat Service* OUR British race...
Category: Meetings
Memories of Sir William Hillary
Manx Memories and Movements, by Samuel Norris, Isle of Man: The Norris Modern Press, Ltd., 12s. 6d.
MR. NORRIS is an English journalist who, in 1894, when not yet twenty years old, landed in the Isle of...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
A Universal Code of Instructions for the Management of the Mortar and Rocket Life Apparatus
DURING the last few years the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have had many opportunities for observing the great need that existed for the adoption of a uniform system of management of the mortar and rocket apparatus, and...
Category: Articles