LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of—- 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...

(Supported solely l y Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways...

How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1934.

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58 6 0 •••• ••••••••• •••••H B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats...

0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.

Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...

UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.

To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.

SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...

IT was stated in the first Number of this Journal, that it would be published monthly, or occasionally, as circumstances might point out, and that it would be sold at the lowest possible price that would cover the expense of paper and...

Plymouth.

ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...

ENGLAND—that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—is a great, a wealthy, a populous, and a powerful country. But it is likewise essentially a maritime one. If not maritime it would have been nothing; for without that...