LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 23rd day of March, 1889, The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P., in the Chair, the...

ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...

HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 10th October a heavy gale from the N.N.E. was experienced. The coxswain of the Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat, the John Clay Barlow, was at the pilots' watch house at about seven o'clock, when it was...

THE Life-boat Saturday "season," DOW drawing to a close, has this year been an unusually successful one. The reports which we have received from all parts of the TJnited Kingdom clearly indicate that the movement has justified its...

A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...

On the 8th February, this valuable life-boat went off again, and rendered the following very gallant service. The sloop Telegraph, of Sunderland, bound to London, with a cargo of bottles, was riding in Yar- mouth Roads, when she parted from...

was a floating palace filled with high society and high hopes.

Setting sail from Southampton to New York, she carried the cream of Edwardian society js well as hundreds who sought a better life in America. It was her maiden...

AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.

Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...