LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Appeal
Lambeth Palace. S.E.
I have been asked, and willingly consent, to write a word commending to the generosity of people of this country the great work which, year by year is carried on by the Life-Boat service under the Royal...
Category: Correspondence
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN presentations of Centenary Vellums to Stations have taken place during the past summer, making the total of such Vellums presented forty-three. Nine of these...
Category: Articles
Air-Cases of Life-Boats
ONE of the chief difficulties which has been experienced by the builders of life-boats, has been that of making the air-cases and compartments, which form their extra buoyancy, perfectly water-tight. Different expedients have been tried, but...
Category: Articles
Loss of a Liverpool Vessel.—Sagacity of a Dog
By advices from Newfoundland, Nov. 14, it appears that the brig Emma, Captain WHITE, 80 days from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, was lost about midnight "on Saturday last, at Seal Cove, a small opening three miles north of Flat Hock,...
Category: Articles
Thousands of People Attended Hoylake
Thousands of people attended Hoylake open day last August which had as its peak of entertainment a display by the RAF's world famous Red Arrows, seen here just as they pass over Hovlake lifeboat. Royal Marines dropped by parachute from a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain J. Swan, of Lowestoft
Coxswain J Swan of Lowestoft. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie of Ramsgate
Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie of Ramsgate. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain James Leadbetter, of Fleetwood
Coxswain James Leadbetter of Fleetwood. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Irish School's Gift of £50
The Headmistress of the Collegiate School, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, held a Christmas Day collection in the school for the Life-boats, and, as a result, no less a sum than £50 was subscribed.
This is one of the most...
Category: Donations