LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN.—A new Life-boat establishment has been formed here by the, Institution, some shipwrecks which had taken place in the locality, having shown the desirability of having a Life-boat on the spot, in the event of...
Category: Articles
Books
Guides for lifeboat enthusiasts For those who are fascinated by the history of an individual station, who want to trace a relief lifeboat through its travels from station to station, or who just want to check their facts and figures, these...
Category: Articles
Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat
IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th May, 1887.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
The Motor Fishing Boats Rosa and Widgeon
JUNE 22ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS. At 9.40 AM. a strong N.E. wind was blowing, the sea was rough and the tide ebbing. It was evident that two motor fishing boats, Rosa and Widgeon, which were out would have great difficulty in crossing the bar...
Swimming
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
RNLLDVD SOUTHERN Lifeboats Featuring the building and never-before-seen action of the RNLI's latest all weather and inshore lifeboats Tamar and Atlantic 85 i_y.yy Please send this slip with a cheque payable to RNLI(Enterprises) Ltd to...
Category: Advertisement
International Conference on the World's Life-Boat Service
The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.
AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...
Category: Meetings
The Motor Fishing Boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa
On the morning of the 26th September a strong south- erly breeze increased to a whole gale, making the sea very heavy at the harbour bar. The local motor fishing boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa were at sea, and the motor life-...
North East South East: the Naming of Humber Lifeboat September 10 and Newhaven Lifeboat September 18
THERE WAS MUCH that was unusual in the naming ceremony of the 54' Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV on Saturday, September 10; but then, there is much that is unusual about Humber, her station. Isolated at the seaward end of a long...
Category: Inaugurations