LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady...
Category: Obituaries
The Helwick Lightvessel
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.15 a-m- on 23fd January, 1965, Trinity House, Swansea, informed the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the Helwick lightvessel was sick and as the Trinity House vessel Alert was not available the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type for South wold, in the place of a boat stationed there many years since. It is 44 feet long and...
Category: Articles
Hospital for Aged and Disabled Master Mariners and Seamen
MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.
INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Edinburgh Leith and Granton
EDINBURGH, the capital of Scotland, is situated near the south shore of the Firth of Forth, nearly 400 miles from London. It is sur- rounded on all sides, excepting the north, by lofty hills, the town itself standing on three hills or ridges...
Category: Articles
A Motor Cruiser
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 10.39 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted one and a half miles north of The Mumbles life-boat station. The life-boat William...
North-Western Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds in the North-West of England was held at Blackpool on 17th and 18th June.
Two hundred and thirty-six delegates attended, from forty-four branches and guilds. The delegates were officially...
Category: Meetings
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
Income and Expenditure.—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1954
THE LIFE-BOAT [JUNE, i* Statement! INCOME AND EXPENDITURE— 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1954. 1953 £ 184,064 EXPENDITURE LIFE-BOATS:— £...
Category: Accounts
Vixen and John and Ann
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—On the 20th December, during a whole gale of wind from the N. and a heavy sea, the No. 2 Life-boat Helen of Foxley put off at 6 A.M. in reply to signals of distress shown by two vessels at anchor in the roadstead.<...