LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
its appointed coxswain at a salary of 8/., and an assistant at 22. a year. The crew consists, in addition, of a bowman, and as many boatmen as the boat pulls oars. The members of the volunteer crews are registered, and wherever practicable,...
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The Life-Boat Crew
MY theme is a very old one Yet one that's ever new, 'Tis about those sturdy heroes The gallant life-boat crew.
Each year they add fresh laurels To their glorious scroll of fame; Their daring deeds are known to all...
Category: Poetry
Two Long Distance Services
Stromness, Orkneys; Wick, Caithness-shire.
ON the night of June 13th the Motor | Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to...
Category: Services
District Conferences. Greater London
Greater London.
THE Annual Conference of Branches in Greater London was held on 9th October, at the City Hall, Westminster. Dele- gates were present from twenty-one Branches and nine Ladies' Life-boat Guilds, and were...
Category: Meetings
Fishing Cobles
On the 14th May the first of six fishing-cobles re- turned to harbour, in a strong N.N.E.
breeze, at 11.30 A.M. Four boats came in safely, and although everything was in readiness it was not considered neces- sary to launch...
Correspondence
Four Winds, Wade Lane, Wade Court Road, Havant, Hampshire.
16th September, 1956.
DEAR SIR, I am writing to express my extreme gratitude to the coxswain and crew of the Selsey life-boat for their rescue of...
Category: Correspondence
Rescue By Irish Currach
Two Irishmen, neither in the regular service of the Institution, have each been awarded bronze medals for an unusual and gallant rescue carried out on the morning of 29th June, i964,atMeenogahane, Co. Kerry. The two men are Mr. Patrick O'...
Category: Services
On Passage to St. Abbs
The new St. Abbs 37-foot Oakley life-boat, Jane Hay, sailed from Osborne's yard, Littlehampton, at 8 a.m. on 3ist October, 1964. Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, was...
Category: Articles
Healthspan
ealthspan vitamins 'Let food be your medicine and medicine your food* Hippocrates, 400BC Good nutrition is the foundation of good health The vital contribution of nutrition to better health is hardly a new concept. It's one of the...
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