LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept In roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The crew of this Life-boat haying expressed a desire to be provided •with a larger boat, a new one has accordingly been furnished to them, of the following dimensions: length, 32 feet; breadth, 7£ feet; number of...

IF we could always have OUR own way in this world, we would doubtless make all work easy, all work pleasant, all work safe; we would fain do good to others, not only without risk of injury to our- selves, "but even without serious...

ABOUT 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 13th of December, 1962, the motor boat Zephyr, with Mr. John Smith the owner, who is a member of the Long- hope life-boat crew, and William Mowat on board, returned to her moorings at North Bay,...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.

Unusual...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...

ITS the December Number of this Journa it was stated that several additional Life boat Stations had been formed, and new boats built to replace old ones.

In addition to those previously enume- rated, we have the...

THE Astronomer Royal (Sir George B. Airy) in liis recent report states—amongst other in- teresting subjects—that the mean temperature of 1880 was 49-4 deg., being O'l deg. above the average of the preceding 39 years. The highest...