LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury Branch
Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, .Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury Branch.
WE regret to announce the death of Major A. T. Fisher, who founded the Salisbury Branch in 1910, and had been its Honorary Secretary ever...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
Category: Articles
The Danish Auxiliary Schooner Doris, of Thuro
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain, and Hartlepool Bay was all...
LIFE-BOAT QUIZ
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which...
Category: Articles
H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.
The death of the Duke of Kent in an air accident on August 2jth. is a very great loss to the life-boat service. Of all the members of the Royal Family who have been associated with it since its foundation none has taken a more generous and...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
Category: Donations
Bose
THE GUARANTEE IS AS CLEAR AND UNDISTORTED AS THE SOUND.
THE BOSE" WAVE" RADIO/CD. We can describe to you how clear and natural the sound is. We can explain how the small size, convenience and simplicity add to the...
Category: Advertisement
Ocean Child, and Ketch Happy Return
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ocean Child, of Belfast, bound from Ayr to Lough Swilly with coal, anchored in Skerries Roads at noon on the 20th August, through stress of weather. The wind increased, and at about 4 o'clock on the...
Ann Wilmot
On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.
Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered...
Fishing Cobles
During the forenoon on the 16th No- vember, when the fishing-cobles were at sea, the wind freshened to a gale and the sea became very heavy. Some of the boats at once ran for safety, but at about 10.30 A.M. nine of the cobles were still at...