LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April (1)
APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...
Category: Services
Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea
The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...
Category: Articles
Nation-Wide Effort Reduces Life-Boat Deficit
THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...
Category: Meetings
The Late Adml Fitzroy, F.R.S.
ADMIRAL, FitzRoy, the skilful sailor, the travelled naturalist, the earnest Christian, and the best friend of the population which fringes our sea-girt isle, and the zealous coadjutor of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has gone to his...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Six Months of 1875
ST. DAVID'S.—On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position...
Category: Services
Centenary Thanksgiving Service In London
THE Centenary Celebrations which began in London with the Centenary Meeting at the Mansion House on 4th March, 1924, concluded on 14th December with a solemn Thanksgiving Service at the Central Hall, Westminster, which was kindly lent to the...
Category: Articles
Prize Winning Essay
Miss GILLIAN ELLIOTT, of Palsgrave County Modern School, Scarborough, Yorkshire, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution. The competition was open to boys and girls up...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued)
MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E. wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Heywood put off to her assistance, and...
Category: Services