LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1905
THE Board of Trade have recently placed in the hands of the public their annual Blue Book dealing with the shipping casualties which occur on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom ; the present number furnishing the relative statistics...
Category: Articles
From Canada: A Subscriber for 56 Years
A SUBSCRIBER in Quebec, in sending his annual gift of £5 wrote: "It may be of interest to you to know that when a boy I was employed by a firm here which every summer shipped by sailing vessels to Great Britain, many cargoes of...
Category: Donations
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1960
£ LIFE-BOATS:— £ £ New life-boats for the following stations : On i account — Aith, Aldeburgh, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Dunbar, Islay, Lizard-Cadgwith, Newhaven, Penlee, Port Patrick, ...
Category: Accounts
Life-Boat House Wembley
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was kept open during the Exhibition's second year with the same exhibit of models, gear, pictures and relics as in 1924. A Watson Cabin Motor Life-boat was again the principal...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
At last we've found affordable Private Medical Insurance for the over 50V Exeter Friendly Society offer healthcare insurance for the over 50's that is hard to beat.
Unlike virtually any other medical insurer we...
Category: Advertisement
Lifejackets for lifesavers
Four years in the making, the RNLI’s new lifejackets are a milestone in maritime innovation
A lifejacket is the one item of personal protective equipment (PPE) that our crews must wear: their...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June. 1906
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its very clear and valuable Annual Report—in the shape of a Blue Book—relative to the shipping casualties which occur on or near the coasts o) the United Kingdom. The recent issue deals with the...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1936
1st February to 30th April, 1936.
Greater London.
On 1st March the following branches in the South-East of England were transferred to Greater London : Southend, Romford and Hornchurch, Upminster and...
Category: Branches
Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...
Category: Articles
List of Launches
Station by station lifeboat launches for June and July Aberdeen: ILB D-536: Jun 3 (2) Jul 5(2) and Jul 1 1 Aberdoiey: ILB B-758: Jun IH Jul I6and Jul 22 Abtnock ILBB-582: Jun 10 and Jul 23 biT stwylh: 1LBB-704: Jun 4 Jun 17(3) Jul 20 and...
Category: Services