LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Flying 15 Dinghies and One National 18 Dinghy
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
How You Can Save By a Gift to the Institution
IT does not sound possible, but it i The following is a list of the cost of the is a fact that by making a large gift! different types of Life-boat and of these to the Institution during his life other parts of the equipment of the wealthy...
Category: Advertisement
Winifred and Shawford
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Poole guild, formed twelve years ago with ten members, now has a membership of 700 and since 1969 it has raised 63,000; the total last year exceeded 15,000. Members of the guild man both a lifeboat caravan on Poole Quay, which took...
Category: Donations
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, During the Year 1861
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Category: Services
Fifty Years of Life-Boat Design
THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.
I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...
Category: Articles
The Danish Life-Saving Service
FROM a communication received a short time since from Horr ANDERSEN, the Inspector of the Danish Life-saving Service, we learn that on the occasion of the visit of H.M. The KING OF DENMARK to the Skaw, on the 24th July last, a tabulated...
Category: Services
The Third International Life-Boat Conference
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 71 - 62,965 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 29th, 1932 The Third International Life-boat...
Category: Meetings
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
Category: Articles