LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Memoriam
AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...
Category: Articles
Grace Darling
1 Grace Darling and Her Times." By Constance Smedley. With a Foreword by Commander Stephen King-Hall. (Hurst & Blackett. 18s. net.) THE news of the great exploit of William Darling, keeper of the Long- stone Lighthouse,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 10th January, 1901.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
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Category: Advertisement
Breaksea
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Breaksea (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
Parliamentary Questions and Answers
MR. L. W. B. TEELING, M.P. for Brighton, asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the coming closing down of the Royal Naval Air Station at Ford, and of the Royal Air Force Station, Tangmere, ceasing to be operational, he would discuss...
Category: Articles
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
Category: Articles
Norval, of Seaham
Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...