LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
II* PLACE AUX DAMES As I pointed out in my first article, no Branch will be really effective—though it may, perchance, be technically effi- cient as a Station—nor will it exercise the far-reaching influence which should belong to it unless...
Category: Articles
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
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Three Oyster Skiffs -The Gertrude, Gladstone, and Shah
SWANSEA.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 29th April, three oyster skiffs— the Gertrude, Gladstone, and Shah—were observed from the shore to be in distress off the Mumbles Head. The force of the gale had carried away their spars and...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1873-4
IN presenting to Parliament the Wreck Register and Chart for the year 1873—4, the BOARD OF TRADE observe that it has been found advisable to make up its tables from the 1st July to the 30th June, instead of from the 1st January to the 31st...
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Life-Boat and Life-Boat House at Malaga
Life-Boat and Life-Boat House at Malaga. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber Silver and Bronze Medallist
Coxswain Robert Cross of the Humber Silver and Bronze Medallist. - View image in PDF
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Two Motor Life-Boat Inaugural Launches: Arklow and Wick
Two Life-boat launches have taken place this year, those of the Motor Life- boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, and Wick in Caithness-shire.
The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! fitted...
Category: Inaugurations
The Prince of Wales and the Eastbourne Crew
June 30th, 1931, on the occasion of the Prince's visit to Eastbourne to lay the foundation stone of the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital. With the Prince are (left to right) Mr. Norman S. Holland, Chairman, Mrs. Astley Roberts, President... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
A design by Miss Margaret L Hodgson for the Institution's Coronation Number (See page 523). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs