LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
To organise a massive cheese and wine evening with more than 200 guests is no mean achievement when you are over eighty, confined to a wheel-chair and reliant on the telephone for making all arrangements. Nevertheless, the irrepressible Mrs...
Category: Donations
Practical Hints for the Consideration and Guidance of Merchant - Seamen and Others Having Charge Or Command of Boats
1. Acquire the habit of sitting down in a boat, and never stand up to perform any work which may be done sitting.
2. Never climb the mast of a boat even in smooth water, to reeve halliards or for any other purpose, but...
Category: Articles
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Month of December, 1874
wtck. Site of Wreck. Wind and Weather. Name of Vessel. 1874.
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Category: Services
The Adventures of a Life-Boat Flotilla
ON 15th April, 1909, a flotilla of three Life-boats, in two of which motor engines had been installed, were despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION from the London Docks en route by sea for Thurso...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
HARRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of the Edinburgh,...
Category: Awards
Classified Advertisements
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Category: Advertisement
The Danish Container Vessel Dragor Maersk
Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...
Books
SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED THE HISTORY OF THE LONGHOPE LIFEBOATS THE STORY OF THE FLEETWOOD LIFEBOATS Written and published by Jeff Morris Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society Jeff Morris is by now well-known for his...
Category: Articles
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
Category: Services