LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.

Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF

H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 30th of March, 1960, and presented medals for gallantry and other...

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ALAS! How many wholesale shipwrecks have the last few months witnessed! How many human beings, who might otherwise, like ourselves, have been now enjoying the many and varied blessings which life affords, have been cut off by these sad, sad...

Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in the emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, crews themselves know they can depend upon the sure and unfailing protection of the "Pyrene" Fire...

IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...

STROMNESS, ORKNEY.—A small lobster fishing-boat, while out at sea to the west of Hoy Head on the morning of the 22nd April, was caught in a sudden gale from S.E. On the matter being reported to the Honorary Secretary, he at once despatched...

THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...