LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...
Category: Articles
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the Storms of January Last
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 4th January, 1881, at 3.45 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded to the Asque Spit and found the s.s. Brazilian, of Barrow, ashore there.
After the boat's...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A strong sea having risen with a dense fog on the 10th of May, the Life-boat Cooperator No. 1 was launched at about 8.30 A.M. to the assistance of three fishingboats whose return was rendered...
Southbourne Branch Held a Car Boot Sale Last December In the Car Park of the Anglo- European College of Chiropractic
Southbourne branch held a car boot sale last December in the car park of the Anglo- European College of Chiropractic. For each 'pitch' £2.50 was charged and, despite bad weather, not only was £150 raised for the lifeboats,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Dr Donald Coggan Archbishop of Canterbury and His Wife Paid An Informal Visit to Whitstable Ilb Station on July 27 They Went Out In the Atlantic 21 and His Gr
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
Since the founding of the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Working Scale Model of a Typical North West Durham Coal Mine Has Been Made By Mr J C Robinson Ofmedomsley the Model Which Is In Mr Robinson's Garden Took 15 Years to Build and Ev
A working, scale model of a typical north west Durham coal mine has been made by Mr J. C. Robinson ofMedomsley. The model, which is in Mr Robinson's garden, took 15 years to build and every unit works. With the help of seven assistants,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
36 Years After
The Institution has just received two legacies of £200 each, one for its general funds the other for its Selsey station, left it in gratitude by a Birmingham woman. In August 1908 she was on board the steamer "Queen" of...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Wednesday, 31st August, 1938.
PAID £29,787 9s. Sd. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Letters
PYROTECHNICS 0 As a reader of THE LIFE-BOAT I have found many of the articles printed therein of great interest, particularly so the 'article in the January issue, 'Safety at Sea with Pyrotechnics', by Pat Winter Thomas.
Category: Correspondence
Ocean Pride
VIGILANT CREW IN FAST RESCUE SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on the 10th April, 1972; Coxswain R. W. Wood and Second Coxswain W. V. Burrell of the Aldeburgh life-boat became concerned for the safety of three fellow longshore fishermen who had not yet...