LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Steamer Ellensborg
JANUARY 31ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. The Danish steamer Ellensborg, of Copenhagen, had been mined or torpedoed eighteen miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £18 2s. 9d.
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1934
1st February to 30th April, 1934.
Greater London.
ACTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayoress in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1933 £93, the...
Category: Branches
Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
Category: Articles
Centenaries In the North-West
Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.
It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...
Category: Articles
The Angling Boat Blue Fin
Nine rescued TYNEMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Tynemouth lifeboat station at 1511 on Sunday April 11, 1982. to tell him that the angling boat Blue Fin appeared to be in distress south of Tyne Piers. Eleven minutes...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the beat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate transportation to the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Plan.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Oldest Supporters
THE Institution has received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 104th year. Two years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling how uncertain her next year's subscription must...
Category: Donations
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 19th November, 1935.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the chair.
Resolved that Mr. F. J. Terry, M.A., be appointed joint district organizing secretary for Greater London.
Reported ...
Category: Committee