LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
In Honour of Lionel Lukin
THOUGH the honour of designing and building the first Life-boat to be per- manently stationed on our coasts belongs to William Wouldhave, of South Shields, and Henry Greathead, and the initiative of establishing the first Life-boat Station...
Category: Articles
A Stained Glass Window Dedicated to the Lifeboat Service Was Unveiled at the Church of Scotland Crown Court London on April 21: It Shows a Pulling Lifeboat
A stained glass window dedicated to the lifeboat service was unveiled at the Church of Scotland, Crown Court, London, on April 21: it shows a pulling lifeboat going to the rescue of a steam tug and records the Institution's 150th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st June, 1882.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chair- man of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year ended the 30th June, 1901, the Life-saving Estab- lishment of the United States embraced 270 stations, an increase of 1 as com- pared with the previous year. Of this total (270) 195 were situated on the...
Category: Articles
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats for the French Coast
WE have much pleasure in being able to report that the French Government have decided to place some life-boats on the coasts of France. Preparatory to doing so, it appears to have been decided to obtain every information on the subject, and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Araucania
Late on the night of the 25th October the s.a.
Araucania of Glasgow stranded on the rooks known as the " Inches," outside Ardrossan harbour. The vessel had left dock with a cargo of coals for Genoa, and broke down...
Notes of the Quarter
THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...
Category: Articles