LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Unusual Services
Rescue of Bathers.
DURING the summer there have, been several unusual calls made upon Life- boats, and in four cases it has been found necessary to launch them to bathers in distress. At Sennen Cove, on the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Long-Standing Supporters of the RNLI
THIS is the third feature describing companies which have given the R.N.L.I.
valuable financial support over a number of years.
9 Colvilles Ltd., of Glasgow, which is now the Colvilles Division of the...
Category: Donations
Letters
Double crossed It is worth remembering that not every plan for raising funds through sponsorship, however well laid, ends in success.
The following is a letter sent to Andrew Young, regional organiser, south west, by two...
Category: Correspondence
Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain Sydney J. Harris, of Gorleston
Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...
Category: Obituaries
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Category: Advertisement
R.N.L.I. Medals for Irb Service
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
Category: Services
A Naval Aeroplane
OCT. 2 0TH. SELSEY, AND SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.13 A.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
The Gale of the 19th May, 1863
THE GALE OF THE 19th MAY, 1863.
To THE EDITOR.—SIR,—I am desirous to utilize this gale by a few words for future benefit.
No winds are more difficult to foretell accurately than north-easterly, because...
Category: Articles
Johnston's Cliff-Crane
AMONGST the various instruments which have been invented from time to time for rescuing persons from drowning, is the in- genious machine with the above title, a drawing and description of which we annex.
The Cliff-crane...
Category: Articles