LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1959
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUN1 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New Life-boats for the following Stations : On account— 156,764 304 44,343 17,104 Aberdeen, Aldeburgh, Ballycotton, Dunbar, Islay, Lerwick, Newhaven, Penlee, Scarborough,...
Category: Accounts
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 Stations of the United Kingdom
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THEIR LIFE-BOATS.
XLVII. GUERNSEY. The John Lockett, 32 feet by 7 feet 8 inches, 10 oars.
XLVIII. ALDERNEY. The Mary and Victoria, 33 feet by 8 feet 6 inches, 10...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me & The Royal Empire
Early on the morning of the 19th January several fishing boats put off, the weather at the time being fine, and the wind westerly. Later on the wind changed to the north and blew a gale, and the sea got up and broke heavily off the harbour...
The Fishery Patrol Vessel Switha
Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...
The Late Adml Fitzroy, F.R.S.
ADMIRAL, FitzRoy, the skilful sailor, the travelled naturalist, the earnest Christian, and the best friend of the population which fringes our sea-girt isle, and the zealous coadjutor of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has gone to his...
Category: Obituaries
A Landing Craft (3)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
A landing craft had gone ashore, but became high and dry at low water and her crew walked ashore. - Rewards, £10 18s. 6d..
A Landing Craft (3)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. An aeroplane had reported a ship ashore, but it was a landing craft which had gone ashore some days earlier.
- Rewards, £4 16s. 6d..
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
. Sheer Plan.
Fig. 2.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of...
Category: Articles
Passenger Steamers and the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution receives each year from a number of the big shipping com- panies part of the proceeds of collec- tions which have been made on board their ships on behalf of different chari- ties. The increasing numbers, as well as the...
Category: Articles