LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1890 issue THE LIFE-BELT USED BY THE CREWS OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are:- 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings.
BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...
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Travelscope,
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Llunelli Asc Organised a Sponsored Sea Swim In August and Raised £145 £80 of Which Was Raised By Susan Roach Who Presented the Cheque to Mrs Dorothy William
Llunelli ASC organised a sponsored sea swim in August and raised £145, £80 of which was raised by Susan Roach who presented the cheque to Mrs Dorothy Williams, chairman of Burry Port ladies' guild. Burry Port ILB was herself... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Medal for Gallantry. Bust of the Institution's Founder
Obverse.—Bust of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., Founder of the Institution, by Mr. Allan G. Wyon, F.R.B.S. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded 1824.
Sir William Hillary, Bt." "... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of Le Vieux Tigre at Beast Point
This steam trawler went ashore on 27th March, 1935, in a fog, and her crew of eighteen were rescued by the motor life-boat at The Lizard. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
£10 for a Penny
AN envelope with a penny stamp was in the Institution's post the other day.
Inside were ten £1 notes.
ThereTwas no letter or name with them. The postmark on the envelope was Bristol..
Category: Donations
Two Picket Boats from H.M.S. Franklin
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 5.35 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, a message was received from the East Pier that two picket boats from H.M.S. Franklin, which was lying in Margate Roads, had left harbour to return to her, but had...
Kia Ora
— The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 27th July, as the coastguard had telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in distress about eighty yards oft the rocks E.S.E. of Kemmaes Head. A moderate N. wind was blowing....