LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Stations of the Isle of Man By Joan Davies
VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
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Kapok Life-Belts. Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade
Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Court of Inquiry held by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the Rye Harbour...
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JUNE 26TH. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening a local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a woman who was seriously ill with appendicitis to Oban for an operation. As no other boat would be available until the...
Hats Off to 18-Year-Old Model Stephanie Harrison One of the Models at the R.N.L.I. Fashion Show Held at Owens Park Fallowfield In March 1968
by courtesy of] [Manchester Evening News Hats off to 18-year-old model Stephanie Harrison, one of the models at the R.N.L.I.
fashion show held at Owens Park, Fallowfield, in March, 1968. The hatless coxswains are (left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE hundred and tenth annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 p.m. on Friday, 20th April.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Letters
One family's century Thank you for your very kind letter regarding my coming resignation from the Committee of Management. It is sad to think that, after more than 100 years, there will be no Cave on the C.
of M. I am...
Category: Correspondence
January 1881: Three Weeks of Storms and Blizzards Just a Hundred Years Ago By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer
A CENTURY AGO lifeboat crews were nearly all fishermen who spent most of their time working at sea and were well used to long periods of exposure in harsh conditions. Their lifeboats, although the best of their day, were simple open boats...
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Castle Cove
MFV sinks BLYTH LIFEBOAT station motor mechanic, John Scott, called up Tynemouth Coastguard at 1825 on Tuesday December 7, 1982, to tell them that the lifeboat would be sailing for a rough weather exercise. He was informed that the fishing...
Our Inland Branches. York
BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...
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