LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Classified
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North Shields Sailors' Homes. Opening of the Building
OPENING OF THE BUILDING.
WE extract from the local papers some ac- count of the interesting ceremony of opening the North Shields Sailors' Home on the 21st October last by his Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.,...
Category: Articles
Maritime Books (Readers Union Ltd)
f MARITIME BOOK BARGAINS from The No-Nonsense Book Society Tor All Who Love The Sea The Maritime Book Society is a unique, personal service offering books on every practical aspect of boatowning and modern seamanship. Our books provide all...
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Annual Report. 1893
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1893, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Middle Pic: Kitted Out In Wet Weather Gear and Lifejackets,
Middle oic: Kitted out in wet weather gear and /ifeyackers, crew members get ready to leap into the pool below.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Difficult Launch at Exmouth
At 5.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the life-boat station at Exmouth, Devon, was informed that rockets had been seen off Lyme Regis, and it was decided to launch the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Services
Super-Quality of Life-Boats. Some Examples from the Recent Gales
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN an article with the above title which appeared in The Lifeboat for February, 1925, I pointed out the reasons why, in material and construction...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: NOVEMBER 1992 Captain J.F. Kersley, station honorary secretary of Queensferry lifeboat from 1967 to 1992. He was awarded a Gold badge in 1988.
Mrs Edith Townend, founder...
Category: Obituaries
Ballyclare
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the evening of the 30th of May, 1956, the life-boat motor mechanic heard on his private radio that the coaster Bally- clare was ashore on Patterson's Rock.
Although no confirmation...