LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept hi roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Brian Sockett Is Taking a Bath Around the Racing Circuit at Lydden Kent the Person Powered Push Which Entailed People from the Dover Area Pulling Or Pushing Peculiar Articles Around the Circui
Brian Socket! is taking a bath around the racing circuit at Lydden, Kent. The Person Powered Push which entailed people from the Dover area pulling or pushing peculiar articles around the circuit brought in £1,098.60 for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1906.
Silt EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
The Trial In Progress: on Parallel Courses About 100 Yards Apart Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 Drive Through Rough Seas at About 17 Knots Photograph By Courtesy O
The trial in progress: on parallel courses about 100 yards apart, Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 drive through rough seas at about 17 knots. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Guernsey Evening Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Over 800 Brownies Guides Cubs and Scouts Took Over Great Yarmouth Beach In April In the Biggest Sponsored Walk the Town Has Known the Aim? to Help Raise The
Over 800 Brownies, Guides, Cubs and Scouts took over Great Yarmouth beach in April in the biggest sponsored walk the town has known. The aim? to help raise the money for four ILBs which Yarmouth and District Round Table plan to give the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
A helping hand After leaving the River Crouch on 22 October 19951 unfortunately crossed the Swallow Tail Spit too close to the buoy at 1530, two hours before low water, and went aground.
The sea was calm and apart from...
Category: Correspondence
After the Rescue
The Walton and Frinton motor life-boat" E.M.E.D." refuelling after the service to the " Esterel.". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs