LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Healthspan
Good nutrition is the foundation of a long and healthy lifespan.
From the day we are born,good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways that each of us can help ourselves to a...
Category: Advertisement
A Sufficiency of Life-Boats In Passenger Ships a Pecuniary Question
SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat which has done duty at Cress- well since 1889 has been replaced by a new boat of the self-righting Ruble type, 34 ft. long by 8 ft. wide, fitted with one water-ballast tank and rowing 10 oars double...
Category: Inaugurations
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.
The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...
Category: Meetings
The Arklow, of Windsor
ABERYSTWYTH.—On the 7th October, during the severe storm which worked wide devastation over a great portion of the United Kingdom, a vessel was seen to be labouring heavily and showing signals of distress, some two or three miles from the...
The Blackpool Life-Boat Band
THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.
Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...
Category: Articles
Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
Saturday Revisited
On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1853 (1)
IN continuation of the Wreck Chart for 1852, issued with our January number of last year, we now present our readers with that for the following year, 1853. In glancing over the borders of the Chart, and observing the black dots which fringe...
Category: Articles
Sea Queen and Golden Horn
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 10th October, as a very heavy sea had got up, with heavy rain showers and a strong and increas- ing N.E. wind, and the local fishing coble Sea Queen was at sea....