LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rowing Boats Dorothy II, and The Howdale
AUGUST 30TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the rowing boat Dorothy II, about one mile east of North Cheek, Robin Hood’s Bay, was showing a coat on an oar. A strong...
The Surf Life Saving Story
An everyday scene which even the complacent Australian cannot take for granted is the surf boat crews battling their way through the wildest surf. They make an unforgettable sight on the shoreward run with the five-man crew crowded at the...
Category: Articles
The Value of a Life
The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
Category: Articles
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Carry the card that helps save lives at sea No fee in first calendar year* Save up to £60 when you transfer a balance from another card** £5 donation tO RNLI when your account is opened - contribute to RNLI every time you use your...
Category: Advertisement
The Cullercoats Motor Life-Boat
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 22nd April, 1939. The Cullercoats motor life-boat had capsized on exercise, but the Tynemouth life-boat was unable to find any of her crew, six of whom were lost.—Rewards, £9 3s. (A full account of this...
The American Steamer Sea Cloud
Hastings, Sussex.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1951, the North Foreland radio station tele- phoned that the American steamer Sea Cloud, seven miles south of the harbour, had reported a man fallen down her hold. She asked for...
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
Category: Branches
The Queen Elizabeth In Sand
LAST September five boys made a sand model on the Southwold beach of the Queen Elizabeth, collected seven shillings from those who stopped to look at it and gave them to the Southwold branch of the Institution..
Category: Donations