LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heroes of Sea and Land. To the Editor
SIR,—When I was in St. Paul's Cathe- dral a few months since, I was moved afresh at the sight of the magnificent monuments to our great naval and mili- tary heroes, particularly those of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington; and, as I...
Category: Correspondence
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
Category: Articles
Anastassios Pateras (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
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Category: Advertisement
Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Stations
As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1882.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
He expressed his high appreciation of the honour the Committee had conferred on him in electing him Deputy-Chairman of the...
Category: Committee
Contents
Contents Volume XLIX Number 493 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
Category: Contents
Obituary
Sir Charles H. Wilson, LL.D, F.S.A.A., of Leeds.
BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the...
Category: Obituaries
Rnli Director Rear Admiral W J Graham (I) With Mr Roger Smith Deputy Chairman of Tricentrol Plc
RNLI director, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (I), with Mr Roger Smith, deputy chairman of Tricentrol PLC after the official handing over by the oil company of their gift of a new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat for use in the relief fleet. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs