LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shetland Islands
WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
In December last, the Viscountess Hawarden was chairman of the Central London Women's Committee 150th anniversary Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball at the Dorchester Hotel. The event was graced by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and...
Category: Donations
Annual Report. 1909
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord George F. Hamilton, G.C.S.I., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Effect of Oil on Breaking Waves and Coast Surf
THE expression " Pouring oil on troubled waters" "has been from some remote period metaphorically used to signify the allayment of anger and strife by kind and gentle words. Like all other metaphors, this one was no doubt...
Category: Articles
The American Way
Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's Public Relations Officer, visited the United States to look at...
Charities - the American Way The PRO'S visit to the USA was a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and the entire costs of...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received the Annual Report 01 the operations of the United States Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1890, issued from the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washington in 1892, the Service being a branch of the...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
Cromer THE new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was named at Cromer on 2ist June, 1967. She was given to the R.N.L.I, and her replacement provided for in perpetuity by Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, in memory of her...
Category: Inaugurations
Services by Shore-Boats (5)
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months previously ; and it was also the first...
Category: Services
Two Inflatable Dinghies
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...