LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued)
MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E. wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Heywood put off to her assistance, and...
Category: Services
Books
• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...
Category: Articles
Tranquillity
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—In the early hours of the 30th of .May. 1956, the life-boat station was told that the motor fishing vessel Tranquillity of Fleetwood was overdue from trials of a newly installed engine. At 8.5 the life-boat Edmund and...
Life-Boat Saturday
SUCH serious problems as the " Unem- ployed " and the stagnation and alleged decline of trade, added to the general unrest throughout Europe on account of the Russo-Japanese war, now happily at an end, one and all rendered the self...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by the Cromer...
Category: Advertisement
New Ways of Raising Money
A MEMBER of Newhaven Ladies' Life- boat Guild has presented a silver challenge cup for an annual tug-of- war competition. Seven teams took part in the first contest for the cup held on the 29th of June, including teams from the Worthing...
Category: Donations
Air Cases for Fishing-Cobles
SOME time since a system of securing the buoyancy of fishing-cobles by means of air cases, so fitted as not to impede the fishermen when following their calling, yet, at the same time, to render the cobles unsinkable, was introduced by the...
Category: Articles
Special Life-Boat Funds
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.
Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.
The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...
Category: Accounts
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1872.
JAN. 1,...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence