LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
This impressive carnival float—it depicts a 48-foot 6-inch class of life-boat—was a big attraction at the end of last year at the Bridgwater, Somerset, carnival. It was entered by Mr. D. B. Frost of the Black Horse Inn, Bridgwater.
This impressive carnival float—it depicts a 48-foot 6-inch class of life-boat—was a big attraction at the end of last year at the Bridgwater, Somerset, carnival.
It was entered by Mr. D. B. Frost of the Black Horse Inn,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Service to the S.S. "Georgia."
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LIGHTSHIP "' CROMER, LIFE-BOATS COURSE TO WRECK ---- ( YARMOUTH & GORLESTON COURSE TO WRECK. .
---- SOUTHWOLD LIFE BOAT'S COURSE TO...
Category: Services
The Dutch Sailing Lugger Johanna Marie
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...
Category: Advertisement
Sisters, of Whitby
On the night of the 26th February, the brig Sisters, of Whitby, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Barber Sand, off Caistor. Her signals of distress being seen from the shore, the Caistor boatmen proceeded to launch the...
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. By Courtesy of Universal Pictorial Press & Agency Ltd.
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE cover picture on this quarter's journal is of Coxswain Richard Muir of Seaham. He was appointed on the 21st November, 1962, four days after the life-boat disaster in which the previous coxswain, J. T. Miller, lost his life while on...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 7.—The 41-Feet Watson Type
THE 41-feet Watson motor life-boat is intended for those stations where a powerful life-boat, of the stable type, is needed, but where the conditions of service make it impossible or unneces- sary to place the 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) or...
Category: Articles
Obituary. Ex-Coxswain John Hayter, of Brooke, Isle of Wight
MR. JOHN HAYTER, who was for 32 years Coxswain of the Life-boat at Brooke, Isle of Wight, died on 17th July, at the age of 91. He was appointed Coxswain when the Station I was opened in 1860 and retired in 1892. He was four times awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
Address at the Annual Meeting.
MR. CHAIRMAN, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, although this is the first time that I have spoken at your Annual Meeting, I am by no means unfamiliar with the work of the life-boat...
Category: Meetings