LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hint to Parents
It will never be said of my children (the girls' any more than the boys), in case of a boat capsizing, " none of the party could swim ;" — the dreary and shameful announcement which we see in the newspaper reports of the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1884-85
No Wreck Register having been issued this autumn by the BOARD OF TRADE, we are unable, as has been our wont for upwards of thirty years, to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, with a Chart showing the wrecks and...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Carol Singers
LAST Christmas a number of Branches again arranged carol-singing parties, and they were even more successful than before, particularly in Sussex. East Grinstead (Sussex), which has led the way with this method of helping the Life-boat...
Category: Donations
Surodan
At about 5.30 P.M. on 3rd March, information was received by telephone from the Coast- guard that a vessel about two miles to the westward and close in shore was apparently in difficulties. A moderate E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
Miners and the Life-Boat Service
ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...
Category: Articles
Fulham VIII and Caribon
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fulham VIII had reported that she had been in collision with the yacht Caribon and that the yacht'...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Articles
A Steam Crane Barge
On the morning of the 8th February, during a strong S.E. breeze and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shown by a steam-crane barge, employed in raising the sunken steamer Kibble, which was riding very heavily at anchor. At 6 o'clock...
Merry Thought
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The motor lifeboat Agnes Cross left harbour at 2 P.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, for exercise, going in the direction of the East Newcombe Buoy. A whole W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. A trawler was...
Pitness
Soon after midday on the 27th March the coastguard telephoned that a steam drifter three miles N.E. of Troup was flying a " Not under control " signal.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes put out at 12.40 P.M. In the...