LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Jordan Glycerine Barometer
ON the 25th of October last The Times published for the first time a remarkable alteration in its usual daily chart of the barometer, and considering the import- ance of the subject, we append its intro- ductory remarks, and also an exact...
Category: Articles
Three Examples of Practical Gratitude
ON 3rd October, 1923, in a whole N.N.W. gale with a terrific sea, the trawlers of Brixham, were in danger in the harbour from a steamer, the Tuscarora, of Sunderland, which had come into collision with another steamer, the Torvald, of Sweden...
Category: Articles
Right: the Dedication Service of the Lord Southborough
Right: The dedication service of The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No 1) at Margate. She was the the 18th lifeboat purchased by the fund but retained the title Civil Service No 1. - View image in PDF
Photo Grahams Fan Archives. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rug Making In Aid of the Institution
THE Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, has very kindly -offered, in addition to the work which she is doing for the Branch, to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip-mats in aid of the Institu- tion's...
Category: Articles
The Three Mastered Schooner Guilia, of Palemo
On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid,...
The Medallists:
The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain/Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald, Stornoway; Coxswain/ Mechanic Ian Johnson, Troon; Coxswain/Mechanic Charles Howry, Sheerness; Helmsman Roger Trigg, Southwold; Helmsman Alan Coster, Lymington; Helmsman Frank... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching By Tractor at Brooke, Isle of Wight
The pulling and sailing life-boat going out with Coxswain Major-General the Right Hon. - View image in PDF
Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., in command.. - View image in PDF
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The Voorwaarts
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 3rd January the coastguards reported that a three-masted steamer was at anchor, S.W. of Trevose Lighthouse, flying the Italian ensign half-mast high.
The Life-boat Willie Eogers was...
The Late Adml Fitzroy, F.R.S.
ADMIRAL, FitzRoy, the skilful sailor, the travelled naturalist, the earnest Christian, and the best friend of the population which fringes our sea-girt isle, and the zealous coadjutor of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has gone to his...
Category: Obituaries
(Below) City of Bristol at Her Naming Ceremony Performed By the Lady Mayoress of Bristol Mrs a G Peglar Seen Above With Captain Roy Harding (Left) and Crew Member
(Below) City of Bristol at her naming ceremony, performed by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G. Peglar, seen above with Captain Roy Harding (left) and crew members.
Photograph by courtesy of Bristol Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs