LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Schoolboys' Own Exhibition
THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...
Category: Articles
When the Classroom Meets the Sea
'My thoughts about the beach have changed. I used to think it was just a fun place to be but now I know there are hidden dangers as well.' These are the words of a teenager from inner London who had the chance to take part in one of...
Category: Articles
A Gallant Service of the Cromer Life-Boat
To the Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As I was an eye-witness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative from myself of the events which led up to what I have no hesitation in calling one of the...
Category: Correspondence
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
WBXFOBD AND BOSSLAEE BBANCH. diocese The tm£ and c*stle were LXIH. WEXFOED No. 1.—The Ethel Eveleen, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, 12 oars.
LXIV. Ditto No. 2.—The Civil Service No. 1,34 feet by...
Category: Articles
The Fraserburgh Inquiry
A FORMAL investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 was held at the Sheriff Court House, Aberdeen, from 5th to 12th October, 1970, into the circumstances attending the capsizing of the Fraserburgh life-boat The Duchess of Kent...
Category: Articles
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 17th June, 1926.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Appointed Mr. F. T. W. WINTER, District Organizing Secretary for the Midlands area, in place of Commander R. W. M. LLOYD, D.S.O., R.N.,...
Category: Committee
The Pyrene Company Ltd.
THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens London S.W.I Victoria 8474 Head Office and works BRtNTfORD, MIDDLESEX Canadian plant: TORONTO Australian plant: MELBOURNE Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men...
Category: Advertisement
The Thistle and Mizpah
Two fish- ing-boats named the Thistle and Mizpah were overtaken when at sea on the 3rd May by a strong gale from S.S.E.
As considerable anxiety was felt for their safety the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched....
The Boulmer Women
THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.
Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...
Category: Articles
On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
Category: Articles