LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat
IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
Category: Services
The 35ft Pilot Cutter Leslie H.
Storm tow TORBAY DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY saw the 35ft pilot cutter Leslie H leaving Brixham Harbour at 1145 on Sunday, February 19, 1978. The weather was so bad that he immediately became concerned for her safety and alerted the...
The Gales and the Variations of the Barometer In the Months of October, November, and December, 1867
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crews. No. III
A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...
Category: Articles
First Knight (1)
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...
The English Sea Fisheries
THE sea fisheries of this country cannot but be a subject of interest to every one, •whether living on the sea-coast or inland, but more particularly must they be so to the friends of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, because of the...
Category: Articles
A Boat (3)
Torbay, Devon. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a 12-feet boat, which had been hired earlier in the day, had not returned. Further enquiries were made...
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Red Bay-- Ireland Division
Main photo (left) Ref 657458 Detailed photo (below) Ref 657461. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs