LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Generous Ships' Crews and Passengers
THE facsimile reproduction which we give of a ship's collection sheet, as it was returned to the Port of Liverpool Branch, is only one example, but a very striking example, of the generosity of the mercantile marine to the Life-boat...
Category: Donations
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : FREDERICK J. WEBB, 27J years coxswain of the Weston-super-Mare...
Category: Awards
The Coast-Guard Service: Its Origin and Life-Saving Work
A GOVERNMENT Service for the pre- vention of smuggling, from which the present Coast-guard Service has evolved, was already in existence in this country in the early part of the eighteenth century. In those days a consider- able force was...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
Category: Services
Mary Gowans and Trustful III
Aberdeen.—At 4.53 on the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, the Gregness coastguard reported that two fishing vessels were making for Aberdeen, as it was too dangerous to enter Stonehaven Harbour. The No.
1 life-boat...
Arbroath and the S.S. Aina Maria
Whitby, Yorkshire— At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message re- ceived by wireless that the motor vessel Arbroath, of Dundee, had been in col- lision with the S.S. Aina Maria Nur- minen, of...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Lerwick and Dungeness
HRH THE DUKE OF KENT, president of the Institution, visited Shetland for the first time on Tuesday September 12, 1978, when he named Lerwick's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Soldian. A guard was provided by A (Lovat Scouts) Company 2/51...
Category: Inaugurations
Angus Rose and Mizpah (1)
Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
The French Life-Boat Service. A Survey and a Tribute
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...
Category: Articles