LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 17th March, during an E. gale, a very heavy sea was running across the mouth of the harbour, and a number of the fishing-boats were lying off, waiting to get in when the tide flowed. As the sea was breaking heavily it was thought wise...
Division of the Midlands District
OWING to the great increase during the last few years in the work of organizing the Institution's appeals, it has been decided to divide the Midlands District, which up to the present has included Ireland and Wales. The Midlands...
Category: Committee
The Biggest Single Donation Ever Received By Port Talbot Branch
The biggest single donation ever received by Port Talbot branch from the efforts of a single person is handed over by Philip Reed, a long distance swimmer. Last September he swam across Swansea Bav from Mumbles Head to Porthcawl, a distance... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service
Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893, "As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is 'That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.'...
Category: Meetings
The Record of the Branches
LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...
Category: Branches
Dorothea
The steam trawler Dorothea, registered at Thors- haven, Faroe Islands, left Fleetwood for the fishing grounds early in the morning of the 16th January, but stranded on the west end of Walney Island, shortly after 3 A.M. The vessel was then...
New Teesmouth Life-Boat Named
LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
Memorial Life-Boats
WHAT monument can mourners rear To those whose umnark'd graves Lie far from all they held most dear, Fathoms below the waves ? No stately pile of sculptured stone Should tell their modest worth, No proud heraldic shield make known The...
Category: Poetry
Mr. Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death on 4th March of Mr.
Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Worthing, a Vice-President of the Institution, the Life-boat Service has lost its oldest and one of its most loyal and distinguished friends. Mr....
Category: Obituaries
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X boat used stranded on in rescue of youths rockLifeboat services are not always in heavy weather and not always to professional or amateur mariners, as a service by Douglas's Tyne this summer illustrated.
On a fine but...