LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Electric Logs
IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
A Vessel (16)
MAY 24TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A vessel was reported to be making distress signals on her siren, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £16 7s..
A Trawler (16)
DEC. 18TH. - ABERDEEN, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. A trawler had been reported to have been attacked by enemy aircraft eighty miles to the E.N.E.
of Aberdeen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £23 17s...
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 23RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was able to reach shore in his rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £6 6s..
A Fishing Boat (16)
SEPTEMBER 26TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she was picked up by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £10 9s..
A Steamer (16)
APRIL 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A steamer had been attacked and badly damaged, and her crew had abandoned her, but they were picked up by the examination vessel and a tug. - Rewards, £4 15s. 6d.
"Launch!" An Appreciation of General Seely's Book
I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
Category: Articles
The Serious Business of the Lottery Draw Over the Chairman and Acting Director Join Ed Stewart and the Children In the Fun of 'Crackerjack!'
The serious business of the lottery draw over, the chairman and acting director join Ed Stewart and the children in the fun of 'Crackerjack!'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs