LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Silver Scale, of North Sunderland
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.59 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a fishing coble was on fire two miles east of Cullernose Point. A light southerly wind was blowing and the sea was...
Suspension of the Life-Boat Journal.
Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to...
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List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1906
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Eighty-Ton Three-Masted Schooner Happy Harry, of Dublin
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing,...
Life-Boat Essay Competition. Presentation of the Prizes In the London District
AT the Caxton Hall, on Monday, 13th December, the Mayor of West- minster (Mi. S. P. B. Bueknill) presided at the presentation of the prizes won in the Competition in the London area (consisting of the schools under the London County Council)...
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H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 3
IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.
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The Screw Steamer Lady Flora, of Hull
The small life-boat—the Boys—at Caister, i also did good service on the 29th April.
The iron screw-steamer Lady Flora, of Hull, went ashore amidst the heavy breakers whilst the wind was blowing strong from I the E.N.E. On...
A Storm Force Rally Was Part of the Celebrations of the 25Th Anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild the Mersey Class Royal Shiphght Made Her Way I
A Storm Force Rally was part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Mersey Class Royal Shiphght made her way inland to the Worcester Rowing Club quay for the occasion.. - View image in PDF
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